Table 4. Summary of the results of spider assembly patterns in ecological gradients.

Gradient	TCAP				TDAP
	Biomass		FD plants		Biomass		FD plants
Optimal trait subset	gh		ow, eye, chel		leg, chel, eye, body		body, chel, eye, iw, ow
ρ(TE)	0.335	(0.015)	0.553	(0.001)	0.047	(0.337)	0.105	(0.268)
ρ(XE.T)	−0.147	(0.919)	−0.140	(0.49)	0.152	(0.157)	0.534	(0.002)

Spider trait subsets maximizing, at the community level, the expression of trait-convergence assembly patterns (TCAP) and trait-divergence assembly patterns (TDAP) related to plant biomass and plant FD ecological gradients. See Table 1 for descriptions of trait abbreviations.