Table 2.
Change in the number of cryo-, meso- and thermophilic bryophyte and vascular plant species in colline, montane, subalpine and alpine plant communities in Switzerland between 2001 and 2021 (number of species models).
| Bryophytes | Vascular plants | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates | SE | p | Estimates | SE | p | |
| Colline | ||||||
| Cryophilic species | −0.092 | 0.216 | 0.671 | −0.007 | 0.257 | 0.979 |
| Mesophilic species | 0.095 | 0.038 | 0.012 | 0.030 | 0.031 | 0.333 |
| Thermophilic species | 0.262 | 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.047 | 0.035 | 0.176 |
| Montane | ||||||
| Cryophilic species | 0.012 | 0.062 | 0.846 | −0.069 | 0.050 | 0.171 |
| Mesophilic species | 0.037 | 0.015 | 0.010 | 0.010 | 0.012 | 0.429 |
| Thermophilic species | 0.198 | 0.041 | < 0.001 | 0.057 | 0.023 | 0.016 |
| Subalpine | ||||||
| Cryophilic species | 0.015 | 0.032 | 0.633 | −0.028 | 0.020 | 0.156 |
| Mesophilic species | 0.047 | 0.018 | 0.009 | 0.049 | 0.017 | 0.003 |
| Thermophilic species | 0.140 | 0.098 | 0.152 | 0.046 | 0.053 | 0.383 |
| Alpine | ||||||
| Cryophilic species | 0.025 | 0.021 | 0.248 | 0.051 | 0.011 | < 0.001 |
| Mesophilic species | 0.091 | 0.028 | 0.001 | 0.090 | 0.036 | 0.012 |
| Thermophilic species | 0.105 | 0.119 | 0.377 | 0.245 | 0.001 | < 0.001 |
| Entire elevational gradient | ||||||
| Cryophilic species | 0.022 | 0.017 | 0.206 | 0.028 | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Mesophilic species | 0.051 | 0.010 | < 0.001 | 0.028 | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Thermophilic species | 0.198 | 0.032 | < 0.001 | 0.057 | 0.018 | 0.001 |
Trends significant at the p ≤ 0.05 level are displayed in bold.