The dominant understory species and its coverage, standing litter biomass, soil properties, and light penetration at the two plantations.

Values are means ± standard errors and are based on data collected just before the experiment began and from plots where vegetation and litter were not removed.
Means in a column followed by different letters are significantly different (p<0.05) according to t-test. EP, Eucalyptus plantation; NP, Native species plantation.