Table 3. The relative importance of site environmental attributes in the final LMEM.
| Parameter | Explanatory variable* | Number ofmodels | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA | DIS | SL | PS | SOC | ||
| LWBC | 0.27 (3) | — | 0.28 (3) | 0.95 (7) | 0.55 (4) | 8 |
| OLBC | 0.74 (2) | — | 0.66 (2) | 1.0 (4) | 1.0 (4) | 4 |
| CDWBC | 1.0 (2) | — | 0.76 (1) | 1.0 (2) | 1.0 (2) | 2 |
| ULBC | 0.77 (3) | — | 0.22 (2) | 1.0 (5) | 0.93 (4) | 5 |
Where, LWBC = living woody biomass carbon, OLBC = other living biomass carbon, CDWBC = coarse dead wood biomass carbon, ULBC = undergrowth and litter biomass carbon, FA = fallow age, DIS = distance (from the nearest control forest site), SL = slope, PS = patch size, SOC = soil organic carbon.
*Values in the parenthesis indicate the number of models containing respective explanatory variable.