Assemblage Characteristics and Habitat Specificity of Carabid Beetles in a Japanese Alpine-Subalpine Zone
Table 3
Biota-environment (BIO-ENV) analyses identifying the best five sets of environmental predictors explaining carabid beetle compositions on Mt. Hakusan. denotes the Pearson correlation coefficient.
Rank
July 15
July 24
August 27
September 23
Significance level 0.1%
Significance level 0.2%
Significance level 0.2%
Significance level 2.7%
Variable combinations
Variable combinations
Variable combinations
Variable combinations
1
0.718
Water Pinus
0.726
Water Temperature Pinus
0.604
Temperature Range Pinus
0.541
Pinus
2
0.680
Water Vegetation Pinus
0.684
Water Pinus
0.566
Substrate Temperature Range Pinus
0.541
Substrate Pinus
3
0.640
Water Range Pinus
0.679
Water Temperature Vegetation Pinus
0.553
Temperature Range Variable Pinus
0.534
Water Substrate Pinus
4
0.621
Water Temperature Pinus
0.675
Water Substrate Temperature Pinus
0.540
Temperature Pinus
0.506
Water Pinus
5
0.616
Water Range Vegetation Pinus
0.661
Water Temperature Range Pinus
0.529
Substrate Temperature Range Vegetation Pinus
0.466
Temperature Pinus
Water, soil water content. Substrate, substrate size. Temperature, mean ground surface temperature. Range, diurnal temperature range. Pinus, percentage coverage of Pinus scrub. Vegetation, percentage coverage by vegetation.
