Forest Succession and Maternity Day Roost Selection by Myotis septentrionalis in a Mesophytic Hardwood Forest

Table 3

Mean ± SD values of day-roost characteristics for all trees, live and snag trees, and the two tree species most commonly used by female Mytois septentrionalis in a mesophytic forest on the Fort Knox military reservation in Hardin, Bullitt, and Meade counties, Kentucky, USA, 2011.

	All trees	Live	Snag	Sassafras albidum	Acer saccharum
	105	35	70	51	10
dbh (cm)	30.19 ± 18.59	31.69 ± 18.06	29.44 ± 18.94	20.96 ± 7.69	26.09 ± 10.92
Height (m)	14.56 ± 7.07	17.39 ± 8.14	13.15 ± 6.05	11.86 ± 4.65	13.48 ± 5.79
Decay (stage)	3.53 ± 1.59	1.71 ± 0.46	4.44 ± 1.10	4.02 ± 1.48	3.6 ± 1.65
Live ()	33	NA	NA	11	4
Remaining bark (%)	64.57 ± 36.11	93.00 ± 4.47	50.36 ± 36.61	52.82 ± 39.10	76.00 ± 28.36
Suppressed (%)	71.4	51.4	81.4	92.2	70.0
Gap fraction (%)	8.37 ± 2.26	7.98 ± 1.96	8.57 ± 2.38	8.13 ± 2.25	9.42 ± 1.81
Slope (%)	13.46 ± 11.10	11.67 ± 9.42	14.35 ± 11.81	12.05 ± 10.65	16.68 ± 11.35
Aspect (°)	222.90 ± 90.84	211.08 ± 93.09	227.51 ± 90.34	223.80 ± 92.15	241.91 ± 79.22
Elevation (m)	217 ± 18.26	219.92 ± 16.38	216.96 ± 19.17	219.35 ± 16.96	216.92 ± 11.78
LAI (m^2*m^−2)	2.55 ± 0.37	2.74 ± 0.34	2.71 ± 0.43	2.71 ± 0.38	2.68 ± 0.34
PPFD (mol*m^−2*s^−1)	1.65 ± 0.76	1.68 ± 0.82	1.63 ± 0.72	1.65 ± 0.89	1.71 ± 0.59