Use of pastures by brown hares.

Published online
01 Jan 1983
Content type
Journal article
Journal title
Journal of Applied Ecology
DOI
10.2307/2403384

Author(s)
Barnes, R. F. W. & Tapper, S. C. & Williams, J.

Publication language
English
Location
UK

Abstract

The relative importance to hares of pasture fields, with and without farm livestock, was assessed on a mixed farm of cereals and grass in Hampshire, S. England. Stocked pastures were used less by hares than unstocked pastures, because of disturbance by livestock. Changes in the acreage of grassland may account for the recent decline in hare numbers in the UK.

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