A Review of Competition between Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and Hares (Lepus europaeus)

Flux, John E. C.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72446-9_16

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“…Where species have evolved in close proximity, parapatric boundaries are usually relatively stable due to differential habitat requirements and spatial intolerance (Flux 1981). Where ecologically similar species come into first or secondary contact due to human-mediated introductions, sympatry is transient and usually short-lived (Flux 2008). For example, since the introduction of the European hare to Sweden in the mid-to late-1800 s, the native mountain hare declined over 210,000 km 2 of its range ; an area 2.5 times the size of Ireland.…”

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Range expansion and comparative habitat use of insular, congeneric lagomorphs: invasive European hares Lepus europaeus and endemic Irish hares Lepus timidus hibernicus

2014

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The European hare (Lepus europaeus) has declined throughout its native range but invaded numerous regions where it has negatively impacted native wildlife. In southern Sweden, it replaces the native mountain hare (L. timidus) through competition and hybridisation. We investigated temporal change in the invasive range of the European hare in Ireland, and compared its habitat use with the endemic Irish hare (L. timidus hibernicus). The range of the European hare was three times larger and its core range twice as large in 2012-2013 than in 2005. Its rate of radial range expansion was 0.73 km year -1 with its introduction estimated to have occurred ca. 1970. Both species utilised improved and rough grasslands and exhibited markedly similar regression coefficients with almost every land cover variable examined. Irish hares were associated with low fibre and high sugar content grass (good quality grazing) whilst the invader had a greater tolerance for low quality forage. European hares were associated with habitat patch edge density, suggesting it may be more suited to using hedgerows as diurnal resting sites than the Irish hare. Consequently, the invader had a wider niche breadth than the native but their niche overlap was virtually complete. Given the impact of the European hare on native species elsewhere, and its apparent preadaption for improved grasslands interspersed with arable land (a habitat that covers 70 % of Ireland), its establishment and range expansion poses a significant threat to the ecological security of the endemic Irish hare, particularly given their ecological similarities.

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Range expansion and comparative habitat use of insular, congeneric lagomorphs: invasive European hares Lepus europaeus and endemic Irish hares Lepus timidus hibernicus

2014

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“…Usually, as Holley ( 1986) described, two or three males were involved (Fig. 1), and only once as many as four, in 265 observations (Flux 2008); male-male conflicts were rare. The sex of the hares was determined by extended observations of behaviour and individual moult patterns in both studies.…”

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Notes on New Zealand mammals 10. Effect of observer position on group size and level of aggression of mating brown hares

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2009

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

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“…Nesse período, o comércio da pele de coelho foi taxado até ser interditado (Flux, 1997). Na Nova Zelândia, coelho bom é coelho morto, com exceção dos retidos em zoológicos e centros de pesquisa.…”

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2012

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Os homens sempre e por toda parte fizeram alguma coisa sobre ou com a “natureza”. Mas as questões não são as mesmas em todos os lugares e as tomadas de decisões que disso resultam podem seguir vias totalmente divergentes. As introduções ou as reintroduções das espécies se multiplicaram a partir de empreendimentos cujo sucesso nunca foi evidente. Considerando-os de perto, descobrimos que são como misturas entre receitas populares, fórmulas de tecnociências e também surpresas que os seres vivos sempre reservaram. Neste artigo defendemos esta ideia seguindo as trajetórias do coelho europeu (Oryctolagus cuniculus) até a Austrália ou Nova-Zelândia. Examinamos os modos como tais trajetórias se cruzaram com outras maneiras de entrar em relação com, de um lado, os não humanos e, de outro, com a ecologia aplicada que acabava de ser descoberta no início do século XX. Diversas controvérsias se sucederam a partir de então. Estas podem ser descritas como crises ou momentos a serem esquecidos. Para nós, elas aparecem antes de tudo como maneiras de desvendar os grandes trabalhos de ordenamento. Não há nenhuma categoria clara nessas histórias, nenhum equilíbrio. Somente seres vivos que se cruzam, se transformam, se sobrepõem, se evitam.

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A Review of Competition between Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and Hares (Lepus europaeus)

Cited by 35 publications

References 17 publications

Range expansion and comparative habitat use of insular, congeneric lagomorphs: invasive European hares Lepus europaeus and endemic Irish hares Lepus timidus hibernicus

Range expansion and comparative habitat use of insular, congeneric lagomorphs: invasive European hares Lepus europaeus and endemic Irish hares Lepus timidus hibernicus

Notes on New Zealand mammals 10. Effect of observer position on group size and level of aggression of mating brown hares

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