Notice bibliographique
Résumé
I examined the effects of predation risk on the behaviour and population dynamics of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) during a cyclic peak and decline (1989-1993) near Kluane Lake, Yukon. Like most heavily preyed upon animals, snowshoe hares have to balance conflicting demands of obtaining food at a high rate and avoiding predators. The consequences of adopting predator avoidance behaviours under high risk of predation in winter may influence population dynamics of hares. Changes in patterns of winter habitat use, survival, body mass, and female reproduction were compared on four experimental areas: (i) where predation risk was reduced by excluding-out terrestrial predators (FENCE), (ii) where food supply was supplemented with ad lib rabbit chow (FOOD), (iii) a combination of these two treatments (FENCE+FOOD), and (iv) an unmanipulated CONTROL. Three hypotheses were compared. The food hypothesis predicts that hares use habitats with the highest amounts of food: body mass remains high, but survival is reduced. The predator avoidance hypothesis predicts that hares use habitats with the lowest risk: survival is high, but body mass decreases. The predation-sensitive foraging (PSF) hypothesis predicts that both survival and body mass decline because a trade-off exists between predation risk and food availability. At peak densities hares used open habitats where food was readily available. However, as predation risk increased during the population decline, hares increased their use of safer, closed habitat and shifted their diet to include a greater proportion of poorer quality spruce twigs. This change in behaviour resulted in lower female body mass and reduced fecundity on the CONTROL area, even though sufficient winter forage was available. A similar decrease in body mass was observed on the FOOD treatment during the third year of the population decline. On FENCE+FOOD, female body mass and fecundity remained high during the decline. Similarly, body mass did not decline on the FENCE treatment. These results supported the PSF hypothesis where terrestrial predators were present (CONTROL and FOOD), and the food hypothesis where terrestrial predators were absent (FENCE and FENCE+FOOD). Hares appear to have a limited ability to reduce exposure to predators because they have no absolutely safe refuge from predators, and they have limited reserves of energy during winter. Preliminary evidence suggests that physiological stress associated with high risk and poor condition is elevated during the population decline. I suggest that deleterious maternal effects mediated by predation risk may introduce a lag of one generation into the 10- year population cycle of snowshoe hares.
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Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
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| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Science ouverte | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,019 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
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