Platte River Ecology Study

Tables

Table 5. Changes in the availability of waste corn (kg dry wt/ha) on the Platte River study area.


              ___________________Time of sample collection__________________
Type of        After corn                 Before crane           After crane
corn          Harvest(early     P*       arrival (early    P     departure 
sampled        Nov. 1978)                  March 1979            (early Apr
               n=30 fields                n=29 fields               1979)
                                                                 n=25 fields

Kernal            100           NS             85          **         38 

Ear               299           **            120          NS         90 

total             399           **            205          **        128

*P = significance level of t-test between means in adjacent colums

** = P < 0.05

NS indicates P > 0.05