Using experimentation to understand the 10-year snowshoe hare cycle in the boreal forest of North America

Agriculture & Biology

• Lepus americanus 100%
• boreal forests 80%
• Lynx canadensis 70%
• predation 43%
• predators 39%
• ecologists 32%
• social behavior 26%
• Canada 22%
• ecosystems 20%
• Lynx lynx 19%
• food shortages 17%
• birth rate 17%
• hares 16%
• Saskatchewan 16%
• Siberia 16%
• fur 15%
• biologists 14%
• global warming 14%
• death 10%
• parasites 9%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• boreal forest 68%
• predation 63%
• predator 57%
• North America 52%
• social behavior 44%
• food supply 37%
• infanticide 29%
• population cycle 25%
• food 22%
• birth rate 22%
• climatic effect 21%
• cause of death 21%
• fur 20%
• ecosystem 19%
• sunspot 19%
• limiting factor 17%
• parasite 17%
• experiment 13%
• warming 13%
• rate 11%