Forest Ecosystems

Table 1 Coefficients of the fitted models for diameter increment, survival, and recruitment for each species group

From: Predicting the dynamics of a native Araucaria forest using a distance-independent individual tree-growth model

Sub-model	Variable	Species group
Sub-model	Variable	1 (n = 3428)	2 (n = 17421)	3 (n = 7175)	4 (n = 3777)	5 (n = 717)	6 (n = 4504)
Δd	β ₀	−1.3612**	−1.0942**	−1.1720**	−0.9004**	−2.0994*	−1.6610**
	DBH	−0.0349*	−0.0128**	−0.0140**	−0.0058**	−0.0241	−0.0162**
	ln DBH	0.6303**	0.3183**	0.3927**	0.3132**	0.7665	0.6934**
	BAL	−0.0249**	−0.0137**	−0.0230**	−0.0215*	−0.0208^a	−0.0404**
	G	−0.0239**	−0.0215**	−0.0212**	−0.0239**	−0.0092	−0.0242**
p	β ₀	8.0148**	12.9567**	4.9827**	1.9897*	−7.4890*	4.0419**
	DBH	−0.1018**		−0.0314**		−0.2569**	0.0597*
	DBH^0.5		−1.3177**		0.4638*
	DBH²				−0.0004*		−0.0004*
	DBH⁻¹		−39.9112**
	ln DBH					5.2228**
	BAL	−0.2225*	−0.2755**	−0.2145**
	G	−0.0629
N _recruit	β ₀	1.0602**	1.0212*	0.3648	0.1235	0.2594	0.1941
	G _g	1.1478**	0.3098*	0.1133**	0.1382**	1.7941	0.0589**
	G _g ²	−0.2132	−0.0174			−1.1528
	G			−0.0034	−0.0071		−0.0180

1, understory; 2, subcanopy; 3, upper canopy shade-tolerant; 4, upper canopy light-demanding; 5, pioneer; 6, emergent
Δd diameter increment, p probability of survival for 3 years, N _recruit number of recruitments, n number of observations used for the diameter increment fittings, β ₀, estimated parameter, BAL basal area of larger trees, DBH diameter at breast height, G stand basal area, G _g basal area for group g
^aNatural logarithm (ln) applied
*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01

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