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.