Fluctuations in the Numbers of the Varying Hare (Lepus Americanus) / D.A. MacLulich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLulich, D.A., Author.

Series:

University of Toronto studies. Biological series ; Number 43.

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hares.

Hares--Ontario.

Ontario.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The varying hare has become an almost classic example of an animal that undergoes periodic fluctuations in numbers. Since the case of the hare is such common knowledge, and since hares comprise one of the very large and important populations in the economy of nature, it was considered important to make an investigation of it.

Contents:

Cover; INTRODUCTION; PREVIOUS WORK; RECORD OF FLUCTUATIONS IN ABUNDANCE; Material and method of compiling history of fluctuations; Fur returns; Literature; Questionnaires; History of fluctuations as revealed by fur returns, literature, and questionnaires; Field work; Stations; Methods; Results; Discussion; MISCELLANEOUS LIFE HISTORY NOTES; Reproduction; Growth; Body temperature; Food; Habitat; Territory and runways; Range of movement; "Forms" and burrows; Nocturnal habits; BACTERIOLOGY OF THE VARYING HARE; Methods; The "normal" flora of the varying hare; Pathogenic bacteria

A cottontail rabbit epidemicINTERNAL PARASITES; EXTERNAL PARASITES; CORRELATION OF THE CYCLE OF ABUNDANCE WITH OTHER PHENOMENA; Correlation with rate of reproduction; Correlation with diseases and parasites; (a) Miscellaneous diseased conditions; (b) Bacteria; (c) Protozoa; (d) Worms; (e) External parasites; Correlation with food; Correlation with habitat; Correlation with cycles of abundance of other animals; Correlation with the weather; Correlation with the abundance of sunspots; DISCUSSION OF POPULATION PHYSIOLOGY; Growth of populations, single species

Correlation of density of population with other factorsPopulations of several species; Applications to varying hares; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; LITERATURE CITED

Notes:

"Reprinted 2018"-- Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8306-0

OCLC:

1129214684