Table 1 Environmental variables measured along the 50-m long strip plots in the lowland tropical rainforest in northeastern Leyte, Philippines.
Habitat type | Environmental variables | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Understorey density (pole contacts) (mean ± SD) | Temperature (oC) (mean ± SD) | Elevation (m asl) (mean ± SD) | Leaf litter thickness (cm) (mean ± SD) | Leaf litter volume (cm3) (mean ± SD) | Tree DBH (cm) (mean ± SD) | Tree height (m) (mean ± SD) | Tree density (trees/ha) (mean ± SD) | |
PFs | 3.01 ± 0.74 | 25.10 ± 1.40 | 197.88 ± 108.32 | 2.72 ± 0.47 | 2026.22 ± 641.64 | 15.53 ± 4.03 | 10.87 ± 2.11 | 2,675.00 ± 757.34 |
PFt | 2.13 ± 0.58 | 25.86 ± 1.08 | 179.86 ± 101.97 | 3.52 ± 0.87 | 3,339.75 ± 803.22 | 16.86 ± 6.37 | 11.17 ± 3.00 | 1,371.43 ± 521.90 |
SLPFs | 3.16 ± 0.58 | 26.16 ± 0.66 | 137.75 ± 64.59 | 2.35 ± 0.77 | 1,820.86 ± 772.75 | 14.69 ± 3.92 | 8.56 ± 1.72 | 1825.00 ± 1,244.13 |
SLPFt | 2.71 ± 0.85 | 26.16 ± 0.46 | 98.29 ± 28.36 | 2.70 ± 0.49 | 2,369.90 ± 574.73 | 11.93 ± 2.14 | 8.65 ± 1.07 | 1685.71 ± 487.95 |
SFs | 3.81 ± 0.81 | 27.37 ± 1.38 | 73.20 ± 24.43 | 1.64 ± 0.70 | 1776.49 ± 1,065.24 | 9.29 ± 1.70 | 6.20 ± 0.62 | 2,500.00 ± 827.65 |
SFt | 4.17 ± 0.99 | 27.54 ± 1.25 | 43.67 ± 5.75 | 1.72 ± 0.28 | 1654.18 ± 594.77 | 7.77 ± 1.77 | 6.78 ± 0.99 | 1,483.33 ± 688.23 |
AFAs | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 29.85 ± 1.86 | 28.00 ± 4.82 | 0.50 ± 0.38 | 399.44 ± 343.00 | 6.13 ± 5.33 | 3.40 ± 2.72 | 416.67 ± 416.73 |
AFAt | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 30.56 ± 1.12 | 29.00 ± 4.74 | 0.30 ± 0.22 | 455.82 ± 429.05 | 2.62 ± 3.73 | 2.00 ± 2.83 | 40.00 ± 54.77 |
Ps | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 29.64 ± 2.34 | 19.67 ± 2.08 | 0.19 ± 0.17 | 201.95 ± 231.36 | 5.24 ± 4.55 | 2.94 ± 2.57 | 533.33 ± 611.01 |
Pt | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 29.39 ± 1.15 | 30.86 ± 9.79 | 0.23 ± 0.50 | 101.82 ± 213.26 | 1.07 ± 2.83 | 0.50 ± 1.32 | 28.57 ± 75.59 |
