Scale Expansion of Community Investigations and Integration of the Effects of Abiotic and Biotic Processes on Maintenance of Species Diversity

Table 1

Calculation of the number of plant species in each expanded ecological community (flora subregion).

Expanded ecological communities^a	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K
Species 1	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0
Species 2	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0
Species 3	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	1
—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Species 13,850	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
The sum of species number

^aSee legend to Figure 1 for definition of subregions A–K.