Table 1 Habitat characteristics of forested sites in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, classified by burn treatment. Values are means and 95 % bootstrapped confidence intervals. We also show the percentage of each burn treatment that did not support snowshoe hares; overall, 19 of 114 sites (16.7 %) had no pellets. We fit negative binomial models for saplings and downed logs and ANOVA (transformed if necessary) for the cover variables. Superscript letters indicate groups identified by post-hoc Tukey tests.

Sapling density (n ha⁻¹)

1358 (1130 to 1606)^a

28770 (12476 to 55247)^b

6976 (4914 to 8362)^c

153.00

<0.001

Downed logs (n (6m⁻¹))

0.24 (0.21 to 0.27)^a

0.56 (0.45 to 0.67)^b

0.62 (0.33 to 0.95)^b

39.99

<0.001

Canopy cover (%)

40.6 (37.6 to 43.5)^a

25.2 (21.5 to 28.8)^b

27.3 (20.0 to 34.8)^b

13.93

<0.001

Understory cover 0 m to 0.5 m (%)

85.9 (84.0 to 87.7)

89.6 (86.9 to 91.9)

94.5 (93.0 to 96.0)

3.46

0.035

Understory cover 0.5 m to 1 m (%)

51.6 (48.3 to 54.9)

51.2 (45.7 to 57.0)

45.3 (40.5 to 51.5)

0.328

0.721

Sites with no hare pellets (%)

13.8

21.7

50.0