Understanding long-term post-fire regeneration of a fire-resistant pine species

Table 2 Results of marginal test of relationship between regeneration parameters and environmental variables

Variable	Seed		Germination		Mortality		Germination rate		Density		Turnover
Variable	Pseudo-F	p	Pseudo-F	p	Pseudo-F	p	Pseudo-F	p	Pseudo-F	p	Pseudo-F	p
Fire age	0.151	0.706	1.858	0.194	0.170	0.697	0.001	0.967	0.053	0.807	0.282	0.597
Elevation	19.956	0.001*	0.554	0.448	5.807	0.023*	0.046	0.814	2.672	0.096	3.492	0.066
Precipitation	13.275	0.003*	0.983	0.334	3.195	0.105	0.373	0.564	3.119	0.092	1.464	0.247
Slope	0.083	0.764	0.493	0.484	1.435	0.237	0.780	0.389	1.607	0.225	0.821	0.344
Canopy cover	0.138	0.713	0.899	0.369	1.684	0.202	1.405	0.261	6.890	0.017*	1.845	0.202
Canopy height	2.127	0.142	2.717	0.124	2.864	0.118	0.020	0.886	1.411	0.253	1.818	0.208
Adult density	14.024	0.001*	3.432	0.079	2.127	0.173	0.016	0.896	1.036	0.367	2.317	0.132
DBH	5.191	0.020*	5.420	0.030*	7.840	0.004*	0.859	0.356	5.936	0.026*	3.211	0.078
Basal area	1.008	0.343	0.015	0.903	0.069	0.778	1.220	0.275	0.102	0.739	2.587	0.132
Litter depth	2.921	0.098	0.096	0.762	0.000	0.985	0.035	0.838	0.022	0.887	0.726	0.414
Litter weight	3.072	0.107	0.000	0.986	0.313	0.568	0.004	0.949	0.407	0.509	0.011	0.922
N avalaible	0.881	0.380	7.200	0.018*	0.406	0.489	0.117	0.744	2.087	0.152	0.083	0.782
P available	0.933	0.329	3.472	0.083	0.507	0.474	0.883	0.387	1.508	0.247	1.923	0.167

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