Initial results found that activity levels varied greatly between shrub species, as shown by figure 6. It should be
noted that tunnels placed within R. ponticum garnered both the highest average % coverage and the lowest %
coverage, which will be discussed later. A similar trend can be seen when looking only as mice, which can be
seen in figure 7.
Figure 6: The average cover (%) of footprints of any species per trap sheet for each trap location with standard
error. Block colour referring to traps located in R. ponticum shrub and the chevron colour referring to traps located
in T. baccata shrub.
Figure 7: The average cover (%) of footprints of mice species per trap sheet for each trap location as well as the
standard error for each site. Block colour referring to traps located in R. ponticum shrub and the chevron colour
referring to traps located in T. baccata shrub.
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