Research Article

Effect of Removal of Woody Biomass after Clearcutting and Intercropping Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) with Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) on Rodent Diversity and Populations

Figure 4

Population abundance estimates from Program MARK (mean number of adult individuals/plot, ± 1 standard error; ) for Mus musculus, Peromyscus leucopus, and Sigmodon hispidus by treatment in (a) 2009 and (b) 2010 at the Lenoir 1 Sustainability Study Site, in Lenoir Co, NC. y-axes vary between plot (a) and (b) to improve readability. Treatments: PB+ = Pine Biomass+; PB− = Pine Biomass−; P × SB+ = Pine × Switchgrass Biomass+; P × SB− = Pine × Switchgrass Biomass−; S = Switchgrass. Treatments with different letters are significantly different ( ; Tukey’s post hoc tests). Rodents were captured and released during 15 July–9 December, 2009 and 19 July–14 November, 2010.
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(a) 2009
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(b) 2010