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

Table 4

Half-matrix containing the number of significant positive spearman rank correlation coefficients among all plant species in the Ecuador right banana plantation for each year over the first 10 years of succession. Plant species and families are (1) Acalypha plalycephaluss, (2) Costus spp., (3) Musa spp., (4) Solanum muricatum, (5) Piperaceae, (6) Setaria spp., (7) Tagetes terniflora, (8) Begonia spp., (9) Cuphea carthlagenensis, (10) Polypodiaceae, (11) Vernonia patens, (12) Brugmansia spp., (13) Digitaria sanguinalis, (14) Urticaceae, (15) Chusquea spp., (16) Nectandra spp., (17) Piperaceae, (18) Commelina diffusa, (19) Erythrina megistophyllta, (20) Heliotropium spp., (21) Inga spp., (22) Musa acuminate, (23) Chenopodium album, (24) Crataegus monogyna, (25) Bocconia frutescens, and (26) Cecropia monostachyta.

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