Research Article

Are Plant Species’ Richness and Diversity Influenced by Fragmentation at a Microscale?

Figure 3

(a) The 1st and 2nd PCA factors extracted; these are mainly composed of variables related to area-perimeter and shape index. (b) The 3rd and 4th PCA factors loaded by variables related to the patch’s proximity and contiguity.
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