Ecological Archives E086-003-A2

John L. Sabo, Ryan Sponseller, Mark Dixon, Kris Gade, Tamara Harms, Jim Heffernan, Andrea Jani, Gabrielle Katz, Candan Soykan, James Watts, and Jill Welter. 2005. Riparian zones increase regional species richness by harboring different, not more, species. Ecology 86:56–62.

Appendix B. A comparison of results assuming 95% and 99% confidence intervals (CI).

Measure

Comparison

Mean

99% LCI

95% LCI

99% UCI

95% UCI

Effect Size

All

-0.12048

-0.8803

-0.7148

0.6393

0.4738

Animal

-0.10195

-1.5396

-1.1868

1.3357

0.9829

Plant

-0.13524

-1.1567

-0.9216

0.8862

0.6512

Dry

-0.36499

-1.5531

-1.2712

0.823

0.5412

Wet

0.11029

-1.0427

-0.7716

1.2633

0.9922

Cumulative richness

All

0.14568

-0.0562

-0.0132

0.3476

0.3046

Animal

0.08317

-0.1144

-0.0671

0.2807

0.2335

Plant

0.22325

-0.0897

-0.0148

0.5362

0.4613

Dry

0.14673

-0.1426

-0.0741

0.4303

0.3618

Wet

0.14382

-0.0819

-0.0272

0.3753

0.3207

Turnover

All

0.506546

0.408654

0.429476

0.604439

0.58362

Animal

0.349296

0.249395

0.271641

0.449196

0.42695

Plant

0.70145

0.589758

0.615167

0.813141

0.787732

Dry

0.621969

0.455400

0.494564

0.788538

0.749374

Wet

0.447186

0.328144

0.354133

0.566228

0.540239

   Note: Bolded lower confidence interval (LCI) values are negative indicating insignificant gradients in species richness (but not turnover) between riparian and upland habitats using 95% and 99% CI’s.



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