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Appendix C. Contour plots of soil (with PCA results) and vegetation components in the P plot.

FigC1

Fig. C1. Contour maps of the P plot for (a) the first, and (b) the second, PCA component scores of the soils variables, interpolated at their sample locations.


Table C1. Principal components analysis of six soil variables from 330 subplots of the P plot.

 

Component 1

Component 2

% variance

63.5

13.7

loadings:

 

 

  Depth

-0.322

-0.671

  LOI

-0.440

0.099

  Mg

-0.463

0.275

  K

-0.444

0.287

  Ca

-0.420

0.257

  P

-0.339

-0.562

 

FigC2

Fig. C2. Contour maps of the P plot for (a) the first, and (b) the second, PCA component scores of the floristic variables for Grid A, and the same in (c) and (d) for Grid B, based on subplot data.


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