Analysis of Herbaceous Plant Succession and Dispersal Mechanisms in Deglaciated Terrain on Mt. Yulong, China

Table 3

One-way ANOVA of the average number of species in three succession stages.

Succession stages	The average number of species		-value
	Mean ± SD
The earliest stage	3.75 ± 1.76^a	12	10.036	0.000235
The middle stage	3.72 ± 1.18^a	18
The last stage	6.05 ± 2.10^b	20

Data are means ± SD; values with the same letter are not significantly different (); values with different letters are significantly different ().