Figure 4

Relationship between time since fire and bird community descriptors. Time since fire as a predictor of (A) taxonomic diversity. (B) abundance. (C) species composition and overall community structure (first ordination axis of Matrix W). (D) functional composition (described food guilds; Matrix T). (E) proportion of granivorous birds. E represent community-weighted mean trait values extracted from Matrix T. Data points represent mean values derived from 83 bird point-counts. Time since fire log-transformed in the horizontal axis, with raw values shown in data points.