Relationships between relative abundance ratio and adult abundance of three growth forms at different life stages in three forests.

The upper of 95% CI of slope <0 indicates a significantly negative relationships. P<0.05 represents a signification relation. In our temperate study site there were only midstory and canopy growth form. U for ‘Understory’, M for ‘Midstory’, C for ‘canopy’, Total for all growth form, SD for ‘Seedling’, SP for ‘Sapling’, PO for ‘Pole’, TR for ‘Tropical’, STR for ‘Subtropical’, TE for ‘Temperate’, N for ‘Species number’.