Table 3 Coefficients of the generalised additive model relating landscape-level communicability (i.e., how strongly a local cell can propagate impacts to other cells via direct and indirect species interactions) with landscape characteristics

From: Species traits and landscape structure can drive scale-dependent propagation of effects in ecosystems

 

estimate

std.error

t

p.value

Intercept

12.657

0.02

623.008

<2*10−16

forest cover (%)

1.009

0.025

39.651

<2*10−16

shrubland cover (%)

0.407

0.026

15.733

<2*10−16

habitat diversity

−0.198

0.026

−7.773

1.06*10−14

  1. The expressive degrees of freedom of the spatial smoothing term is 28.17, with an F-value of 43.21 and a p value  <0.001.