A Refined Methodology for Defining Plant Communities Using Postagricultural Data from the Neotropics

Table 5

Half-matrix containing the number of significant positive spearman rank correlation coefficients among all plant species in the Ecuador right sugarcane plantation for each year over the first 10 years of succession. Plant species and families are (1) Acalypha pladichephalus, (2) Asteraceae, (3) Digitaria sanguinalis, (4) Polypodiaceae, (5) Nectandra spp., (6) Stachys micheliana, (7) Piperaceae, (8) Lantana camara, (9) Verbenaceae, (10) Erythrina megistophyllta, (11) Piper aduncum, (12) Rubus spp., (13) Commelina diffusa, (14) Elephantopus mollis, (15) Cecropia spp., (16) Costus spp., (17) Miconia spp., (18) Passifloraceae, (19) Fabaceae, (20) Chusquea spp., (21) Marantaceae, (22) Pilea spp., (23) Hieracium spp., (24) Sabicea spp., (25) Columnea spp., and (26) Orchidaceae.

	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
1	1	1	1	2			2			1	1									1	1		1
2			1	1	1	4		2														1	2	1
3														1							2	2	3
4				1				1		1			2	2		1			1			1
5					1	2		2																	1
6						1		2					1				1	1	1				1
7								1		1							1					1
8								1	3									1	1	2	2
9											1		2	1						1			1
10										1	1		2							1	1
11											2						1						1		1
12													2									1		1
13														1	1				3	1
14														1									1	1	1
15																			1				1
16																		1	1
17																	3							1
18																		2	1						1
19																			2	2	1	1	1	2
20																				3	1			1
21																					1	1
22
23																							1
24
25																									1
26