Table 3 The significance of the environmental variables in the ordination space (RDA, CCA) in explaining the species communities based on 999 iterations of the permutation tests

Decomposition

0.2525

13.8765***

0.1136

9.0847***

0.9376

23.7119***

BarkCover

0.1071

5.8858***

0.0297

2.3762**

0.2070

5.2354***

Length

0.0517

2.8431**

0.0169

1.3513 ns

0.0730

1.8461 ns

Adherence

0.0829

4.5554***

0.0341

2.7237***

0.2178

5.5082 ***

Moisture

0.0435

2.3921*

0.0300

2.3967***

0.1647

4.1655***

Area

0.0733

4.0299***

0.0175

1.4024 ns

0.3734

9.4431***

TreeCover

0.1309

7.1949***

0.0285

2.2794**

0.2219

5.6120***

PADIR

0.0302

1.6591 ns

0.0426

3.4079***

0.1280

3.2364**

ELEVINDEX

0.2231

12.2582***

0.4346

34.7517***

2.7474

69.4780***

AHL

0.0249

1.3673 ns

0.0298

2.3841**

0.0727

1.8379 ns

SPRUCE

0.0707

3.8840***

0.0666

5.3222***

0.4896

12.3812***