A summary of the GLMMs used to test the importance of treatment (cushion-open) and physical factors on estimates of alpine arthropod community composition.

Richness is the number of species, abundance the total number of individuals, and diversity the Simpson’s index. Tukey post hoc contrasts were used to assess categorical, within factor level differences (i.e. C = cushion or Op = open). The degrees of freedom listed refer to the specific factor (DFmodel = 14). Bold denotes significance at p