Research Article
Scale Expansion of Community Investigations and Integration of the Effects of Abiotic and Biotic Processes on Maintenance of Species Diversity
Table 5
The regression relationship between and, respectively, plant density, herb above-ground biomass, and successional stages at the plot level.
| Process impacting filter | Regression modela | | | -value | value |
| Plant density (stemΒ·haβ1) | (tree layer) | 15 | 0.506 | 6.157 | 0.014 | (shrub layer) | 60 | 0.340 | 14.456 | 0.000 | (herb layer) | 60 | 0.325 | 10.602 | 0.000 |
| Above-ground biomass (gΒ·mβ2) | (herb layer) | 60 | 0.135 | 3.347 | 0.045 |
| Successional stages | (tree layer) | 15 | 0.5664 | 16.994 | 0.001 | (shrub layer) | 60 | 0.033 | 1.531 | 0.222 | (herb layer) | 60 | 0.0913 | 2.209 | 0.122 |
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