Table 4. Summary of the results of Linear Regression analyses using PCA axes as predictive variables of forest demography for plots in North-Central, and North-Western Argentina.

		PCA 1			PCA 2
	Variables	R 2	Estimate	P	R 2	Estimate	P
North-Central Andes	Tree turnover (% yr-1)	0.003	-0.04	ns	0.19	-0.21	0.003
	Tree growth (m2 yr-1)	0.01	0.09	ns	0.12	-0.04	0.047
	Relative tree growth (% yr-1)	0.01	0.05	ns	0.32	-0.38	<0.001
	Basal area change (% yr-1)	0.09	0.39	ns	0.08	-0.31	ns
North-Western Argentina	Tree turnover (% yr-1)	0.08	-0.05	ns	0.01	-0.24	ns
	Tree growth (m2 yr-1)	0.13	-0.34	ns	0.29	1.68	0.021
	Relative tree growth (% yr-1)	0.04	0.15	ns	0.05	0.25	ns
	Basal area change (% yr-1)	0.22	-0.06	0.03	0.13	0.15	ns