Impacts of feral horses on a desert environment

BMC Ecology

Table 5 Summary of significant differences in parameters between sampling quadrats and referent quadrats.

	Trail Quadrat	0.0 m Quadrat	0.4 m Quadrat	1.4 m Quadrat	Quadrat near feces
Percent plant cover	↓	-	↓	-	-
Percent nonnative cover	↓	-	-	-	-
No. of native plant species	↓	↑	↑	-	↑
No. of macroinvertebreates	↑	-	↑	NA	NA
Soil strength	↑	↓	↓	NA	NA

Arrows indicate significant increases or decreases relative to referent quadrats and dashes indicate no difference from referent quadrats. Referent quadrats were located at 6.4 m from the edge of trails used by feral horses in Coyote Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California, USA; Spring 2003.

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