FIGURE LEGENDS
Figure 1: Modeled-predicted coefficients for (top) plant
species richness, (second from top) plant evenness, (second from bottom)
plant diversity, and (bottom) total plant cover from gopher tortoise
exclosures and access (control) plots. Modeled coefficients are from
linear-mixed effects models after accounting for random effects.
Figure 2: Average plant height (cm) over the 2019 growing
season in gopher tortoise access (black) and exclosure (gray) plots.
Each point represents the average of 10 plants during a survey period.
Figure 3: Non-metric multidimensional scaling of Bray-Curtis
dissimilarities (abundance-weighted) for gopher tortoise access (blue)
and exclosure plots (gold) during October 2019. Reference Table S5 for
species key for abbreviations in figure.