Subnivean Species

"Subnivean Species" may be a new phrase to you, but turns out it is a cool way for some critters to survive the winter by thriving under the snow. Morgan Farmer, currently holder of a Louis & Elsa Thomsen Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, will help us uncover the ways and means that voles and mice use to move and forage under the snow, and in turn, how predators such as martens, other weasels and shrews hunt for dinner in the snowpack.