Ecological Archives C006-075-A1

Ecological Archives C006-075-A1

Chelsea J. Little, Annika K. Jägerbrand, Ulf Molau, and Juha M. Alatalo . 2015. Community and species-specific responses to simulated global change in two subarctic-alpine plant communities. Ecosphere 6:227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/es14-00427.1

Appendix A. A table listing all vascular plant species found in the Latjajaure plots in 1995, 1999, or 2001, with indication of their functional group and whether they were present in the meadow community, the heath community, or both, and a table showing accumulated constrained eigenvalues for the RDA analysis in the meadow and heath communities.

Table A1. List of all vascular plant species found in the Latjajaure plots in 1995, 1999, or 2001, with indication of their functional group and whether they were present in the meadow community, the heath community, or both. Abbreviations show how species are identified in Figs. 1 and 3.

Species	Abbreviation	Functional Group	Meadow	Heath
Antennaria alpina	Ant	Forb	x
Astragalus alpinus	Astr	Forb	x
Bartsia alpina	Ba	Forb	x
Betula nana	Bn	Deciduous shrub	x	x
Calamagrostis lapponica	Cal	Grass		x
Carex bigelowii	Cxb	Sedge	x	x
Carex capillaries	Cxcp	Sedge	x
Carex norvegica	Cxno	Sedge	x
Carex rupestris	Cxr	Sedge	x
Carex vaginata	Cxv	Sedge	x
Cassiope hypoides	Cah	Evergreen shrub	x	x
Cassiope tetragona	Cat	Evergreen shrub	x	x
Cerastium alpinum	Cral	Forb	x
Cerastium arcticum	Crar	Forb	x
Cerastium glabratum	Crgl	Forb	x
Diapensia lapponica	Dia	Cushion plant	x	x
Dryas octopetala	Do	Evergreen shrub	x
Empetrum hermaphroditum	Emp	Evergreen shrub	x	x
Equisetum scirpoides	Eqs	Forb	x
Festuca ovina	Fov	Grass	x
Festuca vivipara	Fvi	Grass	x	x
Juncus trifidus	Jtf	Rush	x	x
Kobresia myosuroides	Kobr	Grass	x
Loiseleuria procumbens	Lois	Evergreen shrub	x	x
Luzula arcuata	Lzar	Rush		x
Luzula multiflora	Lzm	Rush	x
Luzula spicata	Luzs	Rush	x
Oxyria digyna	Oxd	Forb	x
Parnassia palustris	Parn	Forb	x
Pedicularis lapponica	Pl	Forb		x
Phyllodoce caerulea	Phyl	Evergreen shrub	x
Poa alpina	Palp	Grass	x
Poa arctica	Parc	Grass	x
Polygonum viviparum	Pvi	Forb	x	x
Potentilla crantzii	Pcr	Forb	x
Rhododendron lapponicum	Rdl	Evergreen shrub	x
Salix herbacea	Sh	Deciduous shrub	x	x
Salix lanata	Slan	Deciduous shrub	x
Salix polaris	Spol	Deciduous shrub	x
Salix reticulata	Sret	Deciduous shrub	x
Saussurea alpina	Saus	Forb	x
Saxifraga oppositifolia	Sxo	Cushion plant	x
Selaginella selaginoides	Sel	Forb	x
Silene acaulis	Siac	Cushion plant	x
Thalictrum alpinum	Tha	Forb	x
Tofielda pusilla	Tp	Forb	x
Trollius europaeus	Troe	Forb	x
Vaccinium uliginosum	Vu	Deciduous shrub	x	x
Vaccinium vitis-idaea	Vvi	Evergreen shrub	x	x
Viola biflora	Vb	Forb	x

Table A2. Accumulated constrained eigenvalues for the RDA analysis in the meadow and heath communities.

Heath	RDA1	RDA2	RDA3	RDA4	RDA5	RDA6	RDA7
Eigenvalue	385.85	94.46	7.45	4.81	0.67	0.10	0.10
Proportion Explained	0.78	0.19	0.02	0.01	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01
Cumulative Proportion Explained	0.78	0.97	0.99	>0.99	>0.99	>0.99	>0.99
Meadow
Eigenvalue	151.83	118.07	19.18	13.46	4.87	1.66	0.79
Proportion Explained	0.49	0.38	0.06	0.04	0.02	0.01	<0.01
Cumulative Proportion Explained	0.49	0.87	0.93	0.97	0.99	>0.99	>0.99

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