Fig. 5.

Evidence of the strong role of wind incidence in affecting the richness of wind-dispersed plant species. Each point represents the average richness of wind-dispersed species as a function of average wind incidence (see SI Text) for each patch type in each year of the study (three patch types in each of 6 years). Connected patches are represented by squares, unconnected low-edge patches are represented by circles, and unconnected high-edge patches are represented by triangles. Line indicates fitted by least-squares regression (r² = 0.43). Repeated measures analysis supports the significance of the depicted relationship (F_1,17 = 12.07, P = 0.003).