Table 5 Results of linear effect models testing the effect of elevational distance for overall β-diversity (βsor) and the components turnover (βsim) and nestedness (βsne) performed separately for along elevation and stepwise β-diversity.
r | r2 | t value | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Along elevation β-diversity | |||||
Kashmir | β-diversity | 0.7817 | 0.6111 | 4.6900 | 0.0003 |
Turnover | 0.8770 | 0.7691 | 7.0676 | 0.0000 | |
Nestedness | -0.8533 | 0.7281 | -6.1227 | 0.0000 | |
Uttarakhand | β-diversity | 0.9839 | 0.9680 | 21.3160 | 0.0000 |
Turnover | 0.9731 | 0.9468 | 16.3430 | 0.0000 | |
Nestedness | 0.6095 | 0.3715 | 2.9774 | 0.0094 | |
Sikkim | β-diversity | 0.9645 | 0.9302 | 16.7330 | 0.0000 |
Turnover | 0.9699 | 0.9408 | 18.2630 | 0.0000 | |
Nestedness | -0.5874 | 0.3451 | -3.3262 | 0.0032 | |
Stepwise β-diversity | |||||
Kashmir | β-diversity | 0.5306 | 0.2815 | 2.3421 | 0.0345 |
Turnover | 0.6652 | 0.4424 | 3.3330 | 0.0049 | |
Nestedness | -0.3192 | 0.1019 | -1.2603 | 0.2282 | |
Uttarakhand | β-diversity | -0.2063 | 0.0426 | -0.8433 | 0.4115 |
Turnover | -0.2076 | 0.0431 | -0.8489 | 0.4085 | |
Nestedness | 0.2417 | 0.0584 | 0.9965 | 0.3338 | |
Sikkim | β-diversity | 0.1733 | 0.0300 | 0.8254 | 0.4180 |
Turnover | 0.1558 | 0.0243 | 0.7398 | 0.4673 | |
Nestedness | 0.0694 | 0.0048 | 0.3263 | 0.7473 | |
