Den relocation per week tracked for natural and introduced colonists. All relocations were used as data regardless of the number of days spent there in order to show how often the natural colonists moved. Den relocation for the natural colonists rose during the later half of the tracking study. Den relocation in the artificially introduced colonists decreased dramatically during the first ten weeks and leveled off to zero relocations for the last ten weeks of the study. Location of woodrat dens through three months.
Black diamonds represent individual dens.
Note the break along the x axis. The series of charts show the progression of den locations throughout the last three months of the tracking study. Only data from the last three months were used in order to show a period of time when both native and introduced colonists had time to move to a location as opposed to the site at which they were released. Average meters traveled to a new den location for individual woodrats. Male values are printed in blue and females in red to show the gender difference.