Ecological Archives E088-135-A9

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 I. Comparison of analysis of deviance models for the proportion of seedling survivors of species in each quarter 20 × 20 m seedling plot.

TABLE I1. Comparison of analysis of deviance models for the proportion of seedling survivors of species in each quarter 20 × 20 m seedling plot.

Model

AIC value

relative basal area + habitat

1545.6

relative basal area + plot

1530.3

relative basal area + canopy openness

1578.5

relative basal area × habitat

1543.1

relative basal area × plot

1536.2

relative basal area × canopy openness

1569.0

relative basal area + plot nested in habitat

1485.8

relative basal area + canopy openness nested in plot nested in habitat

1486.4

relative basal area × canopy openness + canopy openness nested in plot nested in habitat

1486.5

relative basal area × canopy openness + plot nested in habitat

1480.4

 

TABLE I2. Details of model with lowest AIC value.

Model parameter

Estimate

Standard error

z value

P

Intercept

-1.86779

0.60229

-3.101

**

Relative basal area

-2.90633

1.67390

-1.736

 

Canopy openness

0.18341

0.09711

1.889

 

Relative basal area nested in Canopy openness

0.45751

0.32512

1.407

 

Plot1 nested in Valley

1.62942

0.54121

3.011

**

Plot 2 nested in Valley

2.75077

0.51592

5.332

***

Plot 4 nested in Valley

1.69815

0.37642

4.511

***

Plot 4 nested in Valley

1.71387

0.30487

5.622

***

Plot 5 nested in Valley

2.45720

0.43357

5.667

***

Plot 6 nested in Valley

1.30831

0.42209

3.100

**

Plot 7 nested in Valley

1.02355

0.46058

2.222

*

Plot 8 nested in Valley

1.94407

0.45948

4.231

***

Plot 9 nested in Valley

1.82845

0.37077

4.932

***

Plot 10 nested in Valley

2.19727

0.34797

6.314

***

Plot 11 nested in Ridge

1.07430

0.25751

4.172

***

Plot 12 nested in Ridge

1.42597

0.25860

5.514

***

Plot 13 nested in Ridge

1.34054

0.24896

5.385

***

Plot 14 nested in Ridge

1.63268

0.25417

6.424

***

Plot 15 nested in Ridge

1.25700

0.28377

4.430

***

Plot 16 nested in Ridge

1.80029

0.29394

6.125

***

Plot 17 nested in Ridge

1.32975

0.25644

5.186

***

Plot 18 nested in Ridge

1.83572

0.30325

6.053

***

Plot 19 nested in Ridge

1.95573

0.35032

5.583

***

Plot 20 nested in Ridge

0.85135

0.23964

3.553

***

Plot 21 nested in Slope

2.11554

0.40251

5.256

***

Plot 22 nested in Slope

2.00729

0.38596

5.201

***

Plot 23 nested in Slope

0.90174

0.25988

3.470

***

Plot 24 nested in Slope

0.83409

0.23534

3.544

***

Plot 25 nested in Slope

1.43099

0.27645

5.176

***

Plot 26 nested in Slope

1.76992

0.26300

6.730

***

Plot 27 nested in Slope

0.96068

0.30332

3.167

***

Plot 28 nested in Slope

1.46306

0.34261

4.270

***

Plot 29 nested in Slope

1.25597

0.29115

4.314

***

Plot 30 nested in Slope

NA

NA

NA

 



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