Located at the crossroad of the Palearctic, Saharo-Arabian, and Oriental zoogeographic
realms, and with its great environmental diversity, Iran harbors a high complexity and …

Due to their global distribution, invasive history, and unique characteristics, European
rabbits are recognizable almost anywhere on our planet. Although they are members of a …

Alpine and Arctic species are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate change,
which is expected to cause habitat loss, fragmentation and—ultimately—extinction of cold …

As a glacial relict species, mountain hares are adapted to cold and snowy conditions.
Conversely, European hares originate from the grasslands of the Middle East and spread …

Brown hares originated in the open steppe grasslands of Eurasia and have adapted very
successfully to a mixed, arable agriculture environment. In the last decades of the 20th …

Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778, commonly called the European hare, is one of 32 species of
Lepus. It is widely distributed in Europe and Asia where it was not native but introduced by …

Since agricultural intensification started in the early 1900s, farmland biodiversity in Europe
has decreased. Non-farmed features are of high importance for the promotion of plant and …

Climatic variation along the elevation gradient promotes the natural parapatric occurrence of
the European hare (Lepus europaeus) and Alpine mountain hare (Lepus timidus varronis) in …

This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology,
including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology …

In female mammals, reproduction, and in particular lactation, is the energetically most
exigent life-history phase. Reproduction is strongly controlled by body reserves and food …