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Essay Galaxy - Lepus Americanus
Lepus americanus
Lepus americanus (snowshoe hare) belongs to the Phylum: Chordata, Class: Vertebrata, and Order: Mammalia. Lepus americanus is common to the northern boreal forests of North America extending south into higher elevations of the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. It's main diet consists of plant shrubs in summer and in winter forage on ground vegetation by digging feeding craters into the ground (Gilbert, 1990).
Experiments conducted by Krebs et al. (1986), set out to determine responses of Lepus americanus to extra natural food supplemented during 1981 to 1984 in the period of a decline phase during the ten-year cycle. It is not known if decline phase is driven by winter food shortage. The experiment consisted of, one experimental and two control grids set up to determine differences between survival, growth, and reproduction in areas s....
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