Score statistics from randomized complete blocks PERMANOVA (permutational multivariate analysis of variance) of species composition along the distance from the mature forest.
1. Ant foraging on foliage can substantially affect how phytophagous insects use host plants and represents a high predation risk for caterpillars, which are important folivores. Ant–plant–herbivore i
Meta Data: Site: Denotes the site the belt transect data was collected from. Specifies the location in which the transects were placed. The two sites for this experiment were Grassland and Danby w
The full model includes all the explanatory variables that were retained after backward elimination in the models accounting for 1. forest structure, 2. abiotic environmental factors and 3. spatial di
BS, Bare soil, number of points with no species; S, species richness (Shrub species/Grass species); S/point, mean number of species at each point; Ev, evenness (Shannon diversity/log(S)); A/point, mea
