Due to the lynx being a specialist predator, even slight changes in the snowshoe hare will impact the population enormously. Furthermore, according to the 1998 studies, functional responses found of the lynx population in response to the snowshoe hare was that there was no evidence that the handling time of the lynx changed in accordance to the hare population dynamics. Moreover, the numeric response of the lynx population could be perceived in the pattern of the population graphs. During periods of hare population explosion, lynx population typically bloomed as well, and when time of population depression occurs in the hare community the lynx population will drop as well.
