@article {KNZ00497,
	title = {Use of simulated herbaceous canopy by foraging rodents},
	journal = {The American Midland Naturalist},
	volume = {133},
	year = {1995},
	pages = {304 -311},
	abstract = {Use of seeds from simulated herbaceous canopy by western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis), deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) and white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) was examined in laboratory trials. Each mouse was tested on both simulated full-moon and new-moon nights but with only one of three abundances of surface seeds (high, low or zero abundances of seeds in trays on arena floor). White-footed mice are more total seeds (surface plus canopy seeds) during dark-bright than bright-dark trials and with high than low or zero abundances of surface seeds. However, neither the order of dark and bright conditions nor availability of surface seeds influenced total seeds eaten by deer mice and harvest mice. All three species readily foraged in the canopy in the absence of surface seeds (>90\% of trials on both dark and bright nights). When surface seeds were abundant, interspecific differences in canopy foraging were evident as canopy foraging occurred during 54\% of trials on both dark and bright nights for harvest mice, 58\% and 21\% of trials on dark and bright nights, respectively, for white-footed mice and 8\% and 0\% of trials on dark and bright nights for deer mice.},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.2307/2426395},
	author = {Jekanoski, R.D. and D.W. Kaufman}
}
@article {KNZ00408,
	title = {Experimental observations of the cutting and climbing of vegetation by hispid cotton rats},
	journal = {The Prairie Naturalist},
	volume = {25},
	year = {1993},
	pages = {249 -254},
	abstract = {<p>Behavior of cutting and climbing of herbaceous stems by hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) was studied using experimental grass canopies under bright and dark laboratory conditions. When seeds were abundant in ground patches, none of 10 cotton rats climbed and fed in the canopy and only two of the 10 cut grass stalks. In the absence of ground seeds, however, all of nine additional rats either cut canopy stems (24 of 36 total trials; four trials per rat) or climbed into the vegetation for seeds (6 of 36). All climbing and eating in the canopy was done by two small (40-42 g) cotton rats. For rats that did not climb, total cut stems were greater when rats (n=3) were tested for two dark nights and then two bright nights ( hivin x=49.5 stems cut during the four nights) than when rats (n=4) were tested for two bright and then two dark trials ( hivin x=27.7, P lt 0.05). Bright illumination negatively affected stem cutting on nights 1-2 (dark: hivin x=20.0 stems cut during nights 1-2, bright: hivin x=5.3, 0.09 gt P gt 0.08), but not nights 3-4 (bright: hivin x=29.5 stems cut during nights 3-4, dark: hivin x=22.3, P gt 0.10).</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	url = {http://eurekamag.com/research/008/653/008653070.php},
	author = {Jekanoski, R.D. and D.W. Kaufman}
}
@mastersthesis {KNZ00284,
	title = {Experimental analysis of the use of prairie canopy by foraging rodents},
	volume = {MS Thesis},
	year = {1990},
	pages = {1 -39},
	school = {Kansas State University},
	type = {M.S. Thesis},
	address = {Manhattan, KS},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	author = {Jekanoski, R.D.}
}
