Figures and Tables
The authors' figures for mean ambient temperature focused on these two sets of months because they are important for the weasel moult cycle.
What is November-December and March-April?
This is the forest where the study took place.
What is the Białowieża forest?
This is the principal predator of weasels observed by the authors.
What is the red fox?
Climate change is affecting many species: rock ptarmigans have adapted behaviorally by doing this for camouflage.
What is soiling/dirtying their plumage?
There is this type of relationship between the proportion of M. nivalis nivalis in the population and days with snow cover.
What is a positive relationship?
Weasels tend to like these landscape features, which is why the traps were placed there.
What are linear features/fences/ditches?
This is the key factor in the induction of weasel moulting.
What is photoperiod-induced hormonal cascade?
Like M. n. nivalis, this lagomorph species is struggling with camouflage mismatch.
What are snowshoe hares/mountain hares?
The researchers' bar graph of moult stage colors in M. n. nivalis only measures percentage of coat color on this part of the weasel.
What is the dorsal (back) part?
What is IKEA? (shoutout Gosig mus)
General weasel mortality goes down with increasing snow cover because of this behavior by weasels.
What is hunting under snow?
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Under this scenario, M. n. nivalis could gain a better chance of survival in the same location.
What is further climate warming (selection pressure)?
This type of model on this type of surface was incredibly well disguised and had a 0% detection rate by predators in the study.
What is a white, camouflaged (on snow) model?
The authors' climate data from 1967-2017 corresponded to this other important source of data on weasels.
What is weasel skins in the Mammal Research Institute collections?
!! DAILY DOUBLE !!
M. n. vulgaris may not be able to easily move into colder conditions because of this.
What is a higher resting metabolic rate (RMR)?
This seasonal climate aspect has stayed fairly stable in historical and recent years.
What are early winter temperatures?