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Table III

Effect of simulated value-based harvest treatments on genetic diversity and their level of significance. Before treatment level of allelic richness for the Long Hollow walnut population was 18.08 across all loci with a total 217 alleles.

Treatment intensity of value-based
harvests (%)

10 15 25 33
Trees harvested 28 42 70 92
Allelic richnessa 17.2bNS 17.9 NS 17.7NS 17.6 NS
Alleles retained (%) 99 99 98 97
F ST c 0.0030 0.0021 0.0017 0.0016
D d 0.0552 0.0388 0.0307 0.0268

a,b,c,d Comments as in Table II.