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

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="593103.fig.005a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/isrn/volume-2012/593103/figures/593103.fig.005a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Species diversity of overstory conifers</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="593103.fig.005b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/isrn/volume-2012/593103/figures/593103.fig.005b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Structural diversity of total conifers</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Regression relationships for overall mean number of hare pellets (<svg height="11.075" id="M114" style="vertical-align:-0.3135pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 41.387501 11.075" width="41.387501" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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</svg>) per ha and (a) species diversity of overstory conifers, and (b) structural diversity of total conifers. <i>⚪</i>: thinned; <i>⚫</i>: thinned and fertilized; ×: unthinned; <span style="font-family:monospace">▴</span>: mature forest; ■: old-growth forest.</table>

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Figure 5: Silviculture and Wildlife: Snowshoe Hare Abundance across a Successional Sequence of Natural and Intensively Managed Forests 