The enigma of the snowshoe hare population cycle: explaining the low phase through stress and maternal programming
The snowshoe hare cycle has been fundamental to the development of ecological theory for more than half a century. Though these cycles have been intensively studied for over 70 years it is still unknown what mechanism causes young born in the decline to have much lower fitness than those born in the...
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23369 |