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JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
卷 305, 期 1, 页码 27-34出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12532
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habitat use; moonlight; movement; predation risk; snowshoe hare; survival; Lepus americanus; risk avoidance
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Predation and predation risk can exert strong influences on the behavior of prey species. However, risk avoidance behaviors may vary among populations of the same species. We studied a population of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) near the southern edge of their range, in Pennsylvania. This population occupies different habitat types, experiences different environmental conditions, and are exposed to different predator species and densities than northern hare populations; therefore, they might exhibit differences in risk avoidance behaviors. We analyzed hare survival, movement rates, and habitat use under different levels of predation risk, as indexed by moonlight. Similar to previous work, we found snowshoe hare survival decreased with increased moon illumination during the winter, but we found differences in behavioral responses to increased predation risk. We found that snowshoe hares did not reduce movement rates during high-risk nights, but instead found that hares selected areas with denser canopy cover, compared to low-risk nights. We suggest that behavioral plasticity in response to predation risk allows populations of the same species to respond to localized conditions.
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