Fig. 2.
(A and B) Fungal abundance [μg of ergosterol (erg.) per cm2 of leaf blade] in naturally occurring uninjured and radulated green Spartina leaves (A) and experimentally generated uninjured (snail removal treatments), snail-grazed (control snail treatments), and razor-cut (simulated snail grazing treatments) green leaves (B). (C) Juvenile snail growth rates on each experimentally generated green leaf type. Different letters denote significant pairwise differences at P < 0.05 in mean values as determined from Tukey's post hoc test. Error bars represent ± SE.