Understory vegetation in planted pine forests governs bird community composition and diversity in the eastern Mediterranean region

Forest Ecosystems

Table 6 The results of the MNDS ordination analysis of bird communities in relation to habitat structure (Fig. 3)

	NMDS1	NMDS2	r ²	P
Low vegetation cover	−0.2013	0.97953	0.3071	0.043
Low tree cover	−0.78272	0.62238	0.1066	0.319
Shrubs cover	−0.97886	−0.20451	0.5362	0.001
Total vegetation cover	−0.98254	0.18607	0.3777	0.024
Trees per ha	0.10147	0.99484	0.0434	0.701
Tree height	0.37536	0.92688	0.1854	0.18
Tree volume	−0.97843	0.20659	0.0032	0.972
Smilax aspera cover	−0.90532	−0.42473	0.3133	0.047
Pistacia lentiscus cover	−0.8954	0.44525	0.2221	0.107
Rhamnus lycioides cover	−0.56554	−0.82472	0.3504	0.028
Asparagus aphyllus cover	−0.63062	0.77609	0.1585	0.210