Fig. 5: The structural equation modelings showing the changes of temporal stability over succession across spatial scales and how they relate to biodiversity.
From: Temporal stability of forest productivity declines over stand age at multiple spatial scales
The structural equation modeling shows how changes in functional diversity with stand age regulate (A) metacommunity and (B) local stability. The green and yellow arrows show positive and negative significant paths with standardized coefficients shown (*: P < 0.05, **: P < 0.01, and ***: P < 0.001). Conditional R2 is shown in corresponding boxes. Two-sided Fisher’s C test was used to test whether significant paths had not been included in the models. The SEMS fit the data well (A) Fisher’s C = 29.319, df = 42, P = 0.93; B Fisher’s C = 18.855, df = 18, P = 0.401). The full SEMs with all paths are shown in the supplementary materials (Supplementary Fig. 10). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
