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Biology·CSV·Updated 2022-01
Hudson's Bay Company Fur Returns (1845–1935)
Annual pelt counts for snowshoe hare and Canadian lynx from Hudson's Bay Company trading posts, 1845–1935. The canonical empirical dataset for predator-prey oscillation dynamics and Lotka-Volterra model validation.
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Public domain (historical
Predator-PreyLotka-VolterraPopulation DynamicsEcological
Source
MacLulich (1937) replication; Elton & Nicholson (1942); NEON biorepository
License: Public domain (historical data)
https://fw.umn.edu/fw8501/Readings/maclulich1937.pdfKnown Limitations
Pelt counts are affected by trapping effort, market prices, and company policy changes — not just population dynamics. The dataset reflects relative, not absolute, population sizes.