Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Bird Use and Nesting in Conventional,
Minimum-tillage, and Organic Cropland

Table 6


Table 6:Density of nests/10ha on conventional, minumum-tillage, and organic fields fallow, sunflower, and wheat in southeast North Dakota, 1992-93.
  Nest densitya SE
Field type
Conventional 0.5AB 0.02
Minimum-tillage 1.2A 0.03
Organic 1.0B 0.02
Crop type
Fallow 1.5CD 0.04
Sunflower 0.5C 0.02
Wheat 0.6D 0.01
aNumbers in a column followed by the same letter differ (P ≤ 0.05).


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