Fig. 6: Species richness along forest development and elevation.

Patterns of species richness along forest development (sensu Zenner et al.⁶³) across elevational zones for each taxonomic group. We predicted species richness for each developmental stage at 719 m, 1154 m, and 1565 m, which are approximately the central elevations of each elevational zone, using Bayesian multilevel models with a negative binomial error distribution. We summarized the predictions using the MAP (explanation in methods) and fitted a loess curve for better visualization. The patterns suggest substantial differences among elevational zones, but high data variability resulted in wide and overlapping credible intervals (Supplementary Fig. S11 includes data points and credible intervals), leading to only marginal differences (Supplementary Table S9 & Fig. S10).