Small mammal species and numbers of individuals captured in 6 ROW plant cover types and the adjoining forest in August 1989 and 1990.
| ROW cover types | Adjoining forest | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poverty | ||||||||||||||||
| Witchhazel | Blackberry | Blueberry-sweetfern | grass-goldenrod | Fescue | Tree sprout | ROW average | ||||||||||
| Species | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 | 1989 | 1990 |
| No. individuals/acre | ||||||||||||||||
| White-footed mouse | 72.6 | 58.1 | 65.3 | 72.6 | 43.5 | 53.2 | 29.0 | 72.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 48.4 | 36.3 | 50.8 | 79.8.1 | 16.1 |
| (Peromyscus leucopus) | ||||||||||||||||
| Meadow vole | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14.5 | 9.7 | 21.8 | 24.2 | 21.8 | 29.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.7 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (Microtus pennsylvanicus) | ||||||||||||||||
| S. red-backed vole | 29.0 | 14.5 | 0.0 | 9.7 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14.5 | 33.9 | 8.5 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (Clethrionomys gapperi) | ||||||||||||||||
| Masked shrew | 14.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 1.6 | 7.3 | 0.0 |
| (Sorex cinerus) | ||||||||||||||||
| N. short-tailed shrew | 0.0 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (Blarina brevicauda) | ||||||||||||||||
| Woodland jumping mouse | 7.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (Napaeozapus insignis) | ||||||||||||||||
| Meadow jumping mouse | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.7 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (Zapus hudsonius) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total all species | 123.4 | 77.4 | 72.6 | 87.1 | 65.3 | 67.7 | 58.1 | 111.3 | 36.4 | 29.0 | 36.4 | 87.1 | 65.3 | 76.6 | 87.1 | 116.1 |
| Average population | 100.4 | 79.9 | 66.5 | 84.7 | 32.7 | 61.8 | 71.0 | 101.6 | ||||||||