Research Article

Tree Diversity and Community Composition of the Tutong White Sands, Brunei Darussalam: A Rare Tropical Heath Forest Ecosystem

Table 2

Component loadings for first two principal components, PC1 and PC2, from principal component analysis of soil and environmental variables. PC1 and PC2 account for 40.0% and 28.3% of total variance, respectively. Variables with the highest loadings are indicated in bold.

VariablesPC1PC2

Total nitrogen0.47−0.32
Total phosphorus0.48−0.14
pH0.240.91
Gravimetric water content−0.470.13
Canopy openness−0.330.03
Litter depth0.410.17