Deciphering the 10-year Snowshoe Hare Cycle

This blog post is provided by Charles Krebs, Stan Boutin and Rudy Boonstra and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Demographic Mechanisms of Snowshoe Hare Population Cycles in Yukon, Canada”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In this study, the authors present a summary of more than 400-person-years’ worth of research on the population cycles of the snowshoe hare, providing a deeper understanding … Continue reading Deciphering the 10-year Snowshoe Hare Cycle

Cold winters drive 8-year population cycles for a beetle pest in agriculture

This blog post is provided by Sara Emery and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8-year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper they explore regular cycles of the cabbage stem flea beetle in Sweden, investigating what impacts these cycles including climatic conditions in the winter. For … Continue reading Cold winters drive 8-year population cycles for a beetle pest in agriculture