Download or read book Evaluation of Snowshoe Hare Lepus Americanus Habitat in Western Massachusetts written by Kathryn Ann Converse and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Evaluation of Stocking New Brunswick Hare Lepus Americanus in Massachusetts Mixed Forest Habitat written by John D. Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildlife Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semi annual Progress Report Massachusetts Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit written by Massachusetts Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habitat Utilization of Snowshoe Hares Lepus Americanus in Interior Alaska written by Jerry Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distribution Habitat Characterists and Population Demographics of Snowshoe Hare LEPUS AMERICANUS at the Extreme Southern Edge of Its Geographic Range written by Jason L. Malaney and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influence of Precommercial Thinning on Snowshoe Hares written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecology Habitat Use and Winter Thermal Dynamics of Snowshoe Hares in Pennsylvania written by Laura Gigliotti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differences in biotic and abiotic characteristics can lead to geographic variation in the ecology of species and populations. Investigating intraspecific variation over large geographic extents can provide insights into the ecological drivers of population dynamics, which is especially important for predicting how future climatic conditions will affect ecological processes. The snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) is an excellent species to investigate geographic variation in ecological dynamics because it has a geographic range that encompasses a wide range of climates and habitat types. Although the population dynamics of snowshoe hares in the northern portion of their range are well-studied, information on southern populations is limited. I investigated the ecology, habitat use, and winter thermal dynamics of snowshoe hares in Pennsylvania and compared these data to previous research on other hare populations. From January 2014 -- June 2015 I trapped and monitored snowshoe hares to estimate body condition, survival rates, home range size, and home range overlap. I found that hares in Pennsylvania had greater body mass in relation to their structural size, higher annual survival, and larger home ranges than populations from higher latitudes. Home range overlap occurred frequently and I did not find that hares temporally partitioned their home ranges to minimize interaction with nearby hares. Also I trapped three snowshoe hares that exhibited uncharacteristic brown winter coat coloration, indicating potential differences in the winter molt patterns or color morphs. Using locations collected from GPS collars I examined snowshoe hare seasonal habitat use at the stand-level and at fine-scale microhabitats. I determined that during both summer and winter hares preferred areas of mature scrub oak or conifers and avoided open habitats. At the population level, hares preferred areas with dense understory vegetation and high canopy coverage, although I found substantial individual variability in habitat preferences. My research highlights the importance of incorporating multiple scales of analysis into habitat use studies, as well as accounting for individual variation in habitat preferences. Finally, I investigated geographic differences in snowshoe hares' responses to winter temperatures by comparing winter pelage characteristics and heat production between hares in Pennsylvania and the Yukon, as well as investigated the influence of temperature on resting spot selection and movement rates. I found that hares from Pennsylvania had shorter and less dense winter coats than hares from the Yukon and that the Pennsylvania population had less visible white in their winter coats. Hares in the Pennsylvania population also produced less heat than the Yukon population, indicating a lower metabolic rate. Snowshoe hares did not select for resting spots that offered them thermal advantages, but selected locations providing visual obstruction from predators. Movement rates were associated with ambient temperature, with the lowest hourly movements occurs at the extreme high (>4 oC) and low (
Download or read book Snowshoe Hare written by I. B. Keith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), one of our commonest forest mammals, is found only in North America. This document presents a description of the species and provides information on habitat and habits, range, feeding, breeding, and conservation measures.
Download or read book The Survival and Movements of Live Trapped and Introduced Hares Lepus Americanus Erxleben in Massachusetts written by William A. Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Technical Report NE written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Mammals of North America written by George A. Feldhamer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-19 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book Survival and Activity Patterns of Snowshoe Hares Lepus Americanus in Interior Alaska written by Dashiell S. Feierabend and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) survival depends on the interaction of habitat characteristics with numerous biological and environmental variables. In boreal regions where considerable habitat heterogeneity exists, hares balance food availability with predation risk by moving among habitats seasonally, but it is largely unknown how often they move at shorter time scales. I investigated the seasonal effects of habitat, weather, and individual hare characteristics on survival and movement in two common but fundamentally different boreal habitats. Survival was highest in summer, for hares with higher body condition, and in black spruce rather than early successional forest. Hares moved among core use areas in different habitats twice per day on average, using more open areas at night when they were presumably feeding on preferred browse. Movement rates were lowest in mid-afternoon when hares appeared to be resting under dense cover. Behavior of individuals varied greatly with some hares repeatedly moving up to 1 km between defined patches in less than 5 hours and others remaining roughly within a 1 ha area. These findings illustrate the complexity of snowshoe hare ecology in an area where habitat variation promotes daily movement of hares among radically different habitats over a few hundred meters.
Download or read book The Population and Habitat Ecology of Snowshoe Hares Lepus Americanus in the Southern Rocky Mountains written by Jennifer L. Zahratka and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining Landscape scale Movement of Snowshoe Hare Lepus Americanus in a Managed Forest written by Matthew Fountain and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) have been well-studied in their most northern extent using VHF radio telemetry; however, they have not been as well studied at their southern extent or with GPS collars. Here we examine snowshoe hares in a heavily managed forest that contains dense regenerative growth stands of lodgepole pine, surrounded by old-growth lodgepole pine, recent clear cuts, and riparian habitats. We estimated the home range size and extent of snowshoe hares using GPS collars and an area-corrected autocorrelated kernel density estimator. We wanted to test how much of the hares' home range contained regenerative growth stands, and what factors were driving snowshoe hare movement. The average estimated home range was 80.97 acres (95% CI 58.22-108.20 ac, s.d. = 141.72 ac). On average, home range within regenerative growth stands was 47.25%, 34.54% for old growth lodge pole pine, 15.03% for recent clear-cut, and 2.1% for riparian habitats. The average number of regenerative growth stands per hare home range was 2.47 (+/- s.d. = 1.91). There was no significant difference between male and female home range size (p-value = 0.27), nor was there a significant difference between the percent of regenerative growth that composed male and female home ranges (p-value = 0.84). We used a linear mixed effects regression model to understand the effects of habitat, time of day, temperature, sex, and weight on snowshoe hare speed. The variables that significantly affected speed were the time group midnight (p-value
Download or read book Proceedings written by Katherine A. McManus and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings U S Department of Agriculture Interagency Research Forum on Gypsy Moth and Other Invasive Species 1999 written by Sandra L. C. Fosbroke and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
