• DOI:10.1111/J.0030-1299.2004.13285.X
Corpus ID: 7009384

Owl winter irruptions as an indicator of small mammal population cycles in the boreal forest of eastern North America

@article{Cheveau2004OwlWI,
  title={Owl winter irruptions as an indicator of small mammal population cycles in the boreal forest of eastern North America},
  author={Marianne Cheveau and P. Drapeau and Louis M. Imbeau and Y. Bergeron},
  journal={Oikos},
  year={2004},
  volume={107},
  pages={190-198}
}

Marianne Cheveau, P. Drapeau, +1 author Y. Bergeron

Published 2004

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Oikos

Contrary to what is observed in Fennoscandia, it seems to be widely accepted that small mammals do not exhibit multi-annual population cycles in the boreal forest of North America. [...] Key Method With information collected from existing data-bases, we examined the presence of cycles in small mammals and their main avian predators by using temporal autocorrelation analyses. Winter invasions of boreal owls (Aegolius funereus) were periodic, with a 4-yr cycle in Quebec. Populations of one species of small mammal…Expand Abstract

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