Table 7. Mean ± SE for percent horizontal cover at snowshoe hare predation sites in primary hare habitats.
Predation sites were located in Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, between June 2008 and May 2012. Sample sizes are shown in parentheses.
| Black Spruce | Early Successional | Mixed Forest | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter | |||
| Predation | 55 ± 10 (6) | 18 ± 4 (6) | 10 ± 3 (8) | 40 ± 5 (30) | 57 ± 15 (3) | 16 (1) | 58 ± 5 (16) | 66 ± 7 (13) | 78 (1) | 67 ± 6 (4) | 53 ± 20 (3) | 79 ± 3 (9) | ||
| Avian | 76 ± 2 (2) | 0 (1) | 41 ± 6 (12) | 45 ± 15 (2) | 56 ± 7 (7) | 67 ± 10 (7) | 78 (1) | 73 ± 6 (2) | 37 ± 21 (2) | 77 ± 5 (5) | ||||
| Mammalian | 48 ± 21 (2) | 21 ± 6 (4) | 12 ± 3 (7) | 33 ± 7 (14) | 82 (1) | 16 (1) | 62 ± 8 (8) | 78 ± 22 (2) | 62 ± 11 (2) | 85 (1) | 82 ± 3 (2) | |||
| Goshawk | 76 ± 2 (2) | 0 (1) | 44 ± 7 (6) | 45 ± 15 (2) | 54 ± 7 (6) | 64 ± 11 (6) | 15 (1) | 75 (1) | ||||||
| Great Horned Owl | 47 ± 19 (3) | 85 (1) | 78 (1) | 79 ± 9 (3) | ||||||||||
| Lynx | 69 (1) | 14 (1) | 6 (1) | 36 ± 8 (9) | 82 (1) | 75 (1) | 82 ± 3 (2) | |||||||