Ecological Archives E088-135-A6

Simon A. Queenborough, David F. R. P. Burslem, Nancy C. Garwood, and Renato Valencia. 2007. Neighborhood and community interactions determine the spatial pattern of tropical tree seedling survival. Ecology 88:2248–2258.

Appendix F. Summary of observed regression slopes of seedling survival on adult tree abundance or seedling density: light availability test.

TABLE F1. CCT analysis accounting for variation in light availability, using quarter plots subsetted from the full seedling data set. Methods A and B follow those in Appendices B–D.

Canopy openness

Method A

Method B

Quartiles

%

Slope

95% CL

Slope

95% CL

0 – 24%

2.83 – 4.57

-0.11

-0.17

-0.11 *

-0.09

25 – 49%

4.58 – 4.96

-0.20 **

-0.15

-0.20 ***

-0.09

50 – 74%

4.97 – 5.42

-0.14

-0.19

-0.14 ***

-0.09

75 – 100%

5.42 – 7.40

-0.09

-0.17

-0.09

-0.10



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