The effect of buffer strip width and selective logging on streamside plant communities

BMC Ecology

Table 1 The impact of the four logging treatments on the community change in relation to control sites

	R²	Estimate	SE	t	p
Vascular plants	0.17
Intercept (control)		− 0.76
30 m		0.01	0.07	0.21	0.833
30 m selective logging		0.10	0.06	1.62	0.113
15 m		0.15	0.07	2.15	0.038*
15 m selective logging		0.12	0.06	2.00	0.053
Mosses	0.24
Intercept (control)		0.29
30 m		0.00	0.05	0.09	0.926
30 m selective logging		− 0.02	0.04	− 0.56	0.577
15 m		− 0.01	0.05	− 0.15	0.884
15 m selective logging		0.11	0.04	2.71	0.010*

The change in the plant community composition on a site is the Bray–Curtis dissimilarity between pre- and post-logging years. The dissimilarity values of vascular plants were log₁₀-transformed

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