A Refined Methodology for Defining Plant Communities Using Postagricultural Data from the Neotropics

Table 3

Half-matrix containing the number of significant positive spearman rank correlation coefficients among all plant species in the Ecuador left banana plantation for each year over the first 10 years of succession. Plant species and families are (1) Acalypha plalycephatus, (2) Begonia spp., (3) Geonoma undata, (4) Cyathea spp., (5) Musa spp., (6) Pilea spp., (7) Anthurium spp., (8) Trichipterix pilosissima, (9) Nectandra spp., (10) Ochroma spp., (11) Baccharis spp., (12) Anthurium spp., (13) Setaria spp., (14) Bocconia frutescens, (15) Piper aduncum, (16) Erythrina megistophyllta, (17) Vernonia patens, (18) Hedyosmum spp., (19) Commelina diffusa, (20) Alternantcera spp., (21) Siparuna piloso-lepidota, (22) Solanum spp., (23) Vernonia spp., (24) Digitaria sanguinalis, (25) Inga spp., and (26) Passiflora spp.

	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
1	1				1	1	2		1	1		2	2						2	1					2
2		2	2	2	4	1	1		2	1	2									1	1	1
3			3	1	1	3	1	3			1
4					1	1	1	3						1	1
5					2	1								1			1								1
6							2	1		2	1								1			1
7							3	3		1												1
8								3	2	1									1		1	2		1
9									2											1
10										3	2								1	1	1	1	1	1	1
11												2	2	2				1					1		1
12												1					1		1	1	1		1
13														1											1
14																									1
15															3	1
16																2							1
17																	2	2						2
18																		3	1
19																			2		1
20																				1	1
21																					5
22																							2
23																							2	3
24																								1	1
25
26