| Fertility and Infertility in the European Hare Lepus europaeus in Australia (2008) | |||||||||||||
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| The original publication can be found at www.springerlink.com. There are two lagomorph species in Australia, both of which were introduced ca. 1860 by European settlers (Rolls 1969). The European hare Lepus europaeus occupies a range of ca. 700,000 km2 in the south-east (Jarman 1986), a distribution encompassed within the distribution of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) which now occupies an area of ca. 4,500,000 km2, representing the southern two-thirds of the continent (Myers et al. 1989). Australian hare populations are presently at low densities due to unknown factors, despite a history of plague densities and considerable environmental and economic losses in some regions (Douglas 1972). | |||||||||||||
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