Table 1.
Plant taxa included in the five plant groups: cereals, intertillage, other field crops, trees/shrubs, weeds/grasses.
Fig 1.
Kernel density estimates for dry matter components available and used by European hares.
Kernel density estimates for dry matter (DM) components (a) carbohydrates, (b) crude fat, (c) crude fibre and (d) crude protein [mg/g], available to and used by European hares (n = 263). Used components (in the diet) are indicated in white; available components (in the forage sampled in the habitat) are indicated by grey shading.
Table 2.
Post-hoc test results of the electivity indices (parameter estimates β and p-values) of all DM components for the covariate season using the Tukey’s all-pair comparisons method (n = 263).
Fig 2.
Chesson’s Electivity Indices of the different fatty acids.
Chesson’s Electivity Indices in European hares (n = 269) and their distributions of 1000 bootstrap resamples (mean and 95% confidence interval) of the different fatty acids (FA). See text for details of statistics.
Table 3.
Post-hoc test results of the electivity indices (parameter estimates β and p-values) of the different fatty acids for the covariate season using the Tukey’s all-pair comparisons method (n = 269).
Table 4.
Model averaged coefficients for the response variable ALA (n = 269).
Table 5.
Model averaged coefficients for the response variable LA (n = 269).
Fig 3.
Chesson’s Electivity Indices for plant taxa.
Chesson’s Electivity Indices in European hares (n = 399) and their distributions of 1000 bootstrap resamples (mean and 95% confidence interval) for plant taxa selected by n≥7 hares (sample size in brackets is the number of hares selecting each plant taxon). Non-significant results cross the vertical line at zero. See text for details of statistics.
Fig 4.
Chesson’s Electivity Indices for plant groups.
Chesson’s Electivity Indices in European hares (n = 399) and their distributions of 1000 bootstrap resamples (mean and 95% confidence interval) for plant groups which were selected by n≥7 hares (sample size in brackets is the number of hares selecting the respective plant groups). Non-significant results cross the vertical line at zero. See text for details of statistics.