TABLE 4

Mean cover percentages in unseeded control plots by site, treatment, cover type, and time since treatment, including data from both temporal replications (initiated in 2009 and 2010).

Cover type	Year	Fountain Green			Gordon Creek			Hatch Ranch			Lookout Pass			All (mean)
Cover type	Year	C	NC	P	C	NC	P	C	NC	P	C	NC	P	C	NC	P
Annual weeds	1	18.29	7.78	0.1704	2.49	0.72	0.8483	21.78	18.40	0.6771	30.79	27.54	0.7040	18.53	14.05	0.1475
	2	19.10	26.14	0.2179	4.38	3.17	0.8315	21.18	12.56	0.1319	7.45	2.49	0.3993	13.03	11.33	0.4721
	5	7.23	7.59	0.9478	2.04	1.59	0.9331	6.00	2.38	0.5035	11.47	12.02	0.9196	6.69	5.89	0.7256
Cheatgrass (B. tectorum)	1	39.61	21.48	0.0076^*	0.10	0.27	0.9816	1.61	1.64	0.9959	25.04	6.99	0.0116^*	16.80	8.18	0.0041^*
	2	48.73	47.47	0.8597	0.72	0.12	0.9319	18.10	15.77	0.7434	65.86	37.74	0.0002^*	33.35	24.92	0.0085^*
	5	24.35	30.30	0.3770	0.08	0.08	0.9995	2.08	3.61	0.8209	34.44	41.35	0.3050	15.24	18.84	0.2450
Perennial grass	1	1.26	0.69	0.8951	10.65	8.14	0.4479	1.93	2.54	0.8446	8.47	8.82	0.9114	5.99	5.51	0.7857
	2	2.71	0.59	0.5092	20.72	19.33	0.6637	6.05	3.41	0.4097	11.40	15.06	0.2692	10.22	9.44	0.6965
	5	1.14	0.20	0.7578	30.96	34.02	0.3149	0.48	1.53	0.7308	2.93	1.97	0.7526	8.88	9.43	0.7119

↵Notes: P values derived from mixed model analysis of variance indicate significance of difference between treatment types. C = covered treatment, NC = no cover treatment, year = post-treatment sampling year, boldface and * = significant.