Table 3. AIC and explained deviance of all possible combinations of micro-site factors for multivariate models of epiphyte community structure in Bulong Nature Reserve, Mengsong.

Model No.	Variables	Deviance Explained %	AIC
Null	1	0.0	2321.2
Model 1	ECP:SUB	10.4	2282.1
Model 2	ECP*	11.5	2238.8
Model 3	ECP*+SUB	30.4	2237.9
Model 4	ECP ** +ECP:SUB *	26.1	2208.8
Model 5	SUB **	16.0	2185.7
Model 6	SUB ** +ECP+SUB:ECP *	50.7	2163.9
Model 7	SUB ** +ECP:SUB *	37.7	2114.4

Note: Abbreviations for Table 3, please check the notation of Table 1. Bold models were the best performance models. Significance level:

** p < 0.01.

* p < 0.05.