Table 1.
Total changes in minimum number alive per unit effort between years, with percent change listed parenthetically, of small mammals sampled at 20 sites in Maine and New Hampshire, USA, during June–August 2014 and 2015. The small mammal community in deciduous foresta changed significantly between years (t5 = 2.89, p < .038), whereas the small mammal community in coniferous forest did not change between years (t5 = 0.543, p > .05)
| 2014 | 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deciduous | Coniferous | Deciduous | Coniferous | |
| Peromyscus maniculatus | 102 | 22 | 23 (−77.5) | 18 (−18.2) |
| Myodes gapperi | 25 | 96 | 28 (12.0) | 104 (8.3) |
| Napaeozapus insignis | 118 | 27 | 33 (−72.0) | 6 (−77.8) |
| Blarina brevicauda | 21 | 8 | 0 (−100.0) | 1 (−87.5) |
| Tamius striatus | 14 | 7 | 0 (−100.0) | 0 (−100.0) |
| P. leucopus | 9 | 2 | 0 (−100.0) | 0 (−100.0) |
| Sorex cinereus | 1 | 0 | 0 (−100.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| M. pennsylvanicus | 1 | 2 | 1 (0.0) | 3 (50.0) |
| Total | 173a | 164 | 52a (−69.9) | 132 (−20.0) |
a
N. insignis abundance was excluded from the deciduous forest community totals to isolate the effect of P. maniculatus population fluctuations on community change.