Survival rates in a nonharvested brown hare population
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Brown hares are an important game species in Western Europe where more than 5 million are harvested every year. Survival rates for brown hares are poorly documented because of the use of nonrobust estimating techniques. A new study models survival rates in a Danish hare population between 1957 and 1970. The study finds that survival rates for males were better than for females, while yearling survival rates were dependent on weather conditions and time, and greatly influenced by body mass.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 1998
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Effectiveness of wildlife warning reflectors in reducing deer-vehicle collisions: a behavioral study
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Wildlife warning reflectors have been used for several years to reduce collisions between deers and vehicles but their long-term effectiveness is questionable. A new study of fallow deer in northern Zealand, Denmark, investigates their habituation to light reflections from WEGU warning reflectors over a 17-night period. Results show the deers' response to light reflections decreases with time and that reflectors are an unreliable long-term method of preventing deer/vehicle accidents.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 1998
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Summer habitat use by snowshoe hare and mountain cottontail at their Southern zone of sympatry
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The habitat use of snowshoe hare and mountain cottontail were assessed in subalphine conifer forests at their southern point of sympatry in the Southern Rocky Mountains. It indicated that mountain cottontail occupied the lower elevation spruce-fir forest habitats that included Douglas fir, whereas snowshoe hare exclusively used high elevation, closed-canopy spruce-fir forests with high horizontal foliage cover.
Publication Name: The Journal of Wildlife Management
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0022-541X
Year: 2006
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