Table 4 Pre- and post-treatment average (standard error) stand characteristics for the five forest-treatment combinations. Due to changes in sampling procedure, not all plots had tree data collected. Sample size (number of plots) for each forest-treatment combination is noted in the table.

SN-MT

Pre

1201 (183)^a

71 (11)^a

1.2 (1.8)^a

0.104 (0.006)^a

17.8 (7.6)^a

n = 6

Post

578 (141)^a

54 (11)^a

3.4 (3.0)^a

0.066 (0.014)^a

25.4 (7.6)^a

LN-MT

Pre

427 (126)^a

60 (7)^a

4.0 (1.2)^a

0.054 (0.005)^a

38.1 (5.1)^a

n = 14

Post

183 (96)^a

34 (8)^a

7.6 (2.1)^a

0.039 (0.007)^a

45.7 (5.1)^a

RF-MT

Pre

893 (198)^a

38 (13)^a

1.2 (2.1)^a

0.178 (0.0035)^a

33.0 (7.6)^a

n = 6

Post

561 (151)^a

28 (12)^a

4.3 (3.4)^a

0.122 (0.036)^a

43.2 (7.6)^a

SN-PF

Pre

462 (141)

74 (7)

4.3 (1.2)^a

0.063 (0.009)^b

35.6 (5.1)^b

n = 10

Post

351 (106)

74 (10)

7.3 (2.4)^a

0.049 (0.009)^b

38.1 (5.1)^b

LN-PF

Pre

408 (86)

49 (5)

3.7 (0.3)^a

0.084 (0.008)

35.6 (2.5)

n = 27

Post

356 (69)

46 (6)

6.1 (1.5)^a

0.074 (0.007)

38.1 (2.5)