Claim · model-written summary
The banner-tailed kangaroo rat was significantly more abundant on the treatment site than on the control site before and after prairie dog reintroduction.
- Taxon
- Dipodomys spectabilis
Dipodomys spectabilise3 - Outcome
- abundante3
- Direction
- more abundante3
- Setting
- treatment sitee3
Verbatim
e3“The banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) was significantly more abundant on the treatment site before and after reintroduction of prairie dogs”
Title
Responses of Small Mammals and Vegetation to a Reintroduction of Gunnison's Prairie Dogs
A. D. Davidson; R. R. Parmenter; J. R. Gosz Journal of Mammalogy 1999. doi:10.2307/1383181
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Percent cover and species richness of plants did not change during the first year after prairie dog reintroduction.
- Association The white-footed mouse was significantly more abundant on the control site following prairie dog reintroduction.
- Intervention effect Total rodent biomass and abundance did not change during the first year after prairie dog reintroduction.
- Observation Prairie dog biomass was about 32 times greater than that of the resident rodent community.