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. 2021 Jan 11;11(3):1413–1431. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7153

TABLE A2.

Mean (x¯) pellet counts for snowshoe hare pellet plots with 95% confidence intervals (CI) by dominant land cover or species (i.e., aspen; Populus tremuloides or P. grandidentata) classification with number of sites (n) and estimated density (hare/km2) by land cover and overall study area for each year, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA, 2013–2015

Year Land cover n
x¯
2.5% CI 97.5% CI Density by land cover Study area density b
2013 Aspen 34 4.0 0.0 18.7 33.1 15.4
Deciduous a 52 0.2 0.0 0.7 3.9
Evergreen 80 4.0 0.0 16.4 20.2
Mixed 81 5.1 0.0 30.0 24.2
Woody wetland 69 3.7 0.0 19.3 22.9
2014 Aspen 80 2.7 0.0 12.8 9.8 9.5
Deciduous a 87 0.3 0.0 0.0 3.8
Evergreen 86 3.0 0.0 18.3 12.6
Mixed 81 2.3 0.0 19.0 10.3
Woody wetland 79 5.6 0.0 45.9 18.6
2015 Aspen 90 0.6 0.0 6.8 5.6 6.5
Deciduous a 88 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5
Evergreen 83 2.3 0.0 15.0 10.5
Mixed 110 2.1 0.0 25.9 7.9
Woody wetland 77 2.6 0.0 21.2 11.5
a

Excluding aspen.

b

Weighted mean by proportion of each land cover within the study area.