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Avian Use of Purple Loosestrife Dominated Habitat Relative to Other Vegetation Types in a Lake Huron Wetland Complex

Table 4

TABLE 4. Mean avian density (no./ha) ± SE, avian diversity (Shannon-Weaver) ± SE, and number of second and third period plots by (n) vegetation type in Saginaw Bay wetlands, 1994-1995.
Vegetation type^a	n^b	Density^c	Diversity^c
SS	30	51.33 ± 3.4 A	1.05 ± 0.08 A
WM/SS	19	38.95 ± 4.3 BC	0.63 ± 0.10 B
WM/SS/LS	13	44.62 ± 5.2 ABC	0.59 ± 0.12 B
WM/LS	12	49.17 ± 5.4 AB	0.22 ± 0.12 C
WM	21	39.52 ± 4.1 BC	0.62 ± 0.09 B
IC	23	41.74 ± 3.9 ABC	0.74 ± 0.09 B
CC	51	36.27 ± 2.6 C	0.56 ± 0.06 B
CB	20	0.50 ± 4.2 D	0 C
^a Vegetation types: SS = scrub-shrub, WM/SS = wet meadow/scrub-shrub, WM/SS/LS = wet meadow/scrub-shrub/loosestrife, WM/LS = wet meadow/loosestrife, WM = wet meadow, IC = inland cattail, CC = coastal cattail, CB = coastal bulrush. ^b Excludes early period surveys because of missing data. ^c Means with columns followed by the same letter do not differ (P > 0.05) as determined by ANOVA and Fisher's least significant difference.

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