The importance of coarse woody debris (C?VD) to small mammals in a managed pine forest in South Carolina was tested experimentally during summer and autumn 1990 and winter and spring 1991-1994. Abundance and demographics of small mammals were compared between plots with abundant CWD created by a tornado (unsalvaged plots) and plots where tornado-created CWD had been removed (salvaged plots). Sp...

The recurrence plot was originally proposed for visualizing time series data. As plots have mainly been used analyzing generated from nonlinear deterministic systems, it is not well known whether they can be applied to gain insight into a random dynamical system, in which stochastic components play central role. In this study, we demonstrate that provide new viewpoints the stochasticity underly...

Conventional boxplots (Tukey 1977) are useful displays for conveying rough information about the central 50% of the data and the extent of the data. For moderate-sized data sets (n < 1000), detailed estimates of tail behavior beyond the quartiles may not be trustworthy, so the information provided by boxplots is appropriately somewhat vague beyond the quartiles, and the expected number of “outl...