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Habitat use and abundance of the woolly hare Lepus oiostolus in the Lhasa mountains, Tibet
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Xin Lu
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February 15, 2011
Abstract
Habitat use, abundance and population dynamics of the woolly hare (Lepus oiostolus) were investigated in an alpine shrub-covering valley near Lhasa, Tibet. Counts of fecal pellets indicated that habitats outside the valley with heavily degraded shrub vegetation supported a small hare population, compared with habitats inside the valleys where vegetation was undisturbed, agricultural and hunting were lacking, and predators and herbivore competitors rare. Three types of shrub habitats with intermediate cover levels along with alpine meadow inside the valley were equally preferred by the hares, whereas willow-rhododendron, with the densest cover, was avoided. Transect surveys showed that the hare population density in the preferred habitats was 13 ind./km2 in spring and 27 ind./km2 in autumn. Out of seven years observations from 1995 to 2004, massive spring mortality of hares occurred only in 2000, leading to a marked population decline that year.
Published Online: 2011-02-15
Published in Print: 2011-02-01
©2011 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
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Keywords for this article
abundance;
habitat;
Lepus oiostolus;
population dynamics;
Tibet;
woolly hare
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