Figure 1
The relative importance of potential factors (including conspecific and heterospecific leaf litter) influencing on early-stage seedlings survival of four species.
The potential factors were the log-transformed initial height (HT) of seedlings, the amount of conspecific (Lcon) and heterospecific (Lhet) leaf litter, conspecific adult neighborhood indices (Acon) and heterspecifics (Ahet), the density of conspecific (Scon), and heterospecific (Shet) seedling neighbors. Blue bins indicate significant, positive effects of the variables on seedling survival (The model-average estimator 
); while yellow bins indicate significant, negative effects (
); gray bars indicate non-significant effects (
). The red and brown arrows highlight the variable of conspecific leaf litter and conspecific adult neighborhood indices respectively.
