Silviculture and Wildlife: Snowshoe Hare Abundance across a Successional Sequence of Natural and Intensively Managed Forests

Figure 1

Mean (𝑛=3) (a) density and basal area (BA) of overstory coniferous trees per ha, and (b) density and structural diversity of total conifers, in the six treatment stands in 2003. YP: young plantation; Th: thinned; Th + F: thinned and fertilized; UnTh: unthinned; MF: mature forest; OG: old-growth forest. Mean values with different letters are significantly different by Duncan’s multiple range test, adjusted for multiple contrasts.

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