Long-Term Data from Fields Recovering after Sugarcane, Banana, and Pasture Cultivation in Ecuador

Table 5

Significant Spearman rank correlation coefficients among all plant species in the Ecuador Left Pasture over the first 10 years of succession. Significant positive associations are indicated by a “+” and significant negative associations are indicated by a “−”. Plant species and families are indicated as follows: Setaria sphacelata (A), Acalypha pladichephalus (B), Xanthosoma sagittifolia (C), Heliocarpus americanus (D), Heliconia spp. (E), Ficus spp. (F), Solanceae (G), Araceae (H), Citrus spp. (I), Vernonia patens (J), Begonia spp. (K), and Nectandra spp. (L).

	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
A	−	−	−	−	−	−	−	−	−	−
B	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
C			+	+
D
E
F						+	+	+