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

Table 2

Mean ± SE (𝑛=3 replicate sites) number of fecal pellets per ha (×1000) for snowshoe hares in four winter periods, and results of repeated measures analysis of variance (RM ANOVA). Columns of mean values with different letters are significantly different by Duncan’s multiple range test (DMRT), adjusted for multiple contrasts. Mauchly’s test determined that these data were not correlated among repeated measures.

RM ANOVA results

Year

Site

Site

Time

Site × time

YP

Th

Th + F

UnTh

MF

OG

F 5,10

P

F 3,36

P

F 15,36

P

C

B

AB

A

A

B

23.04

<0.01

2.15

0.11

0.71

0.76

1999-2000

0.00±0.00

0.99±0.57

10.94±8.22

139.01±17.50

39.59±4.96

3.43±2.29

2000-2001

0.23±0.22

1.92±0.92

21.88±10.95

152.75±10.92

49.29±5.51

7.12±3.42

2001-2002

0.02±0.01

11.40±7.10

70.79±25.90

190.59±19.41

50.96±9.00

10.43±9.50

2002-2003

0.27±0.14

23.16±6.25

85.48±10.98

173.27±29.76

46.46±3.73

4.22±2.69

YP: young plantation; Th: thinned; Th + F: thinned and fertilized; UnTh: unthinned; MF: mature forest; OG: old-growth.