@article {KNZ00285,
	title = {Influence of plant litter on patch use by foraging Peromyscus maniculatus and Reithrodontomys megalotis},
	journal = {The American Midland Naturalist},
	volume = {124},
	year = {1990},
	pages = {195 -198},
	abstract = {<p>The effect of plant litter on foraging patch choice by prairie deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii) and western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis) was examined in laboratory trials. In each trial, equal amounts of millet seeds were simultaneously offered overnight in three patches with different amounts of litter. Both deer mice and harvest mice removed significantly more seeds from the patch with the least litter as compared to the other two patches. The mean proportion of seeds taken from the patch with the the least litter by harvest mice (56.9\%) was significantly smaller than that taken by deer mice (84.5\%), as expected from patterns of habitat selection in tallgrass prairie. During the 2nd night, seeds were offered only under one depth of litter (15-420 g per patch for deer mice and 30-420 g for harvest mice). The amount of seeds taken was not influenced by increased litter depth for either species, although foraging success was expected to decrease as litter depth increased</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, tallgrass prairie},
	doi = {10.2307/2426095},
	author = {D.W. Kaufman and Kaufman, G.A.}
}
