Two population oscillations dominate terrestrial community dynamics in northern Canada. In
the boreal forest, the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) fluctuates in cycles with an 8–10 …

Quantifying the relative impacts of top‐down vs. bottom‐up control of ecosystems remains a
controversial issue, with debate often focusing on the perennial question of how predators …

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty
leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental …

Habitat constrains and shapes successful ecological and physiological strategies and thus
provides the context for the evolution of life-history traits. The stress axis plays a vital role in …

Population cycles have long fascinated ecologists from the time of Charles Elton in the
1920s. The discovery of large population fluctuations in undisturbed ecosystems challenged …

Optimal behavior theory suggests that prey animals will reduce activity during intermittent
periods when elevated predation risk outweighs the fitness benefits of activity. Specifically …

Snowshoe hare cycles are one of the most prominent phenomena in ecology. Experimental
studies point to predation as the dominant driving factor, but previous experiments …

Understanding relationships between environmental conditions and reproductive
parameters is important when interpreting variation in animal population size. The …

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can
be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical concepts applied to a specific …