Changes of Species Richness in Heathland Communities over 15 Years following Disturbances

Table 2

Results of the nested repeated measures ANOVA test the effect of treatments (burning, cutting, and ploughing) in the mean cover of dominant species, nesting zones (A, B, and C) into treatments.

	SS	d.f.	F	P
Treatments	73335.23	2	1.18	0.32
Zones (treatments)	96457.7	6	7.33	<0.01
Error	85647.73	36
Time (repeated measures)	97956.3	12	80.83	<0.01
Time * Treatments	24819.9	24	8.23	<0.01
Time * Zones (treatments)	337778.6	72	3.94	<0.01
Error	60080.98	432