Effects of forest disturbance, forest loss, and spatial trends (easting and northing of the study plots) on the taxonomic and phylogenetic α-diversity of species groups.

Separate models were calculated for (a) plants and (b) birds. The coefficients from model averaging of equivalently likely models (see Methods) are shown. Akaike weights yield information on the relative importance of multiple predictors per model. Statistically significant predictors (p < 0.050) are shown in boldface type. With the exception of life stage, all predictors were Z-transformed to facilitate comparisons of effect sizes.
a Note that these are t-values from the single “best” multiple linear regression model; no model averaging was necessary and Z-values are reported for averaged models only.
Effects of forest disturbance, forest loss, and spatial trends (easting and northing of the study plots) on the taxonomic and phylogenetic α-diversity of species groups.