Table 3.

Meta‐analysis (multiple linear regression) of disturbance effects on indicators of carbon and biodiversity (response variables) and their relation to covariates describing the disturbance regime

	Time since disturbance		1–severity
Indicator	Coefficient	P‐value	Coefficient	P‐value	R 2
ALC	0.606	<0.001	33.461	0.064	0.736
TEC	0.192	0.006	12.860	0.361	0.280
DAC	−1.435	0.014	−477.129	0.200	0.258
SOC	0.260	0.042	−9.075	0.792	0.124
S′	−0.307	0.291	−19.400	0.576	0.022
H′	−2.608	0.589	−175.386	0.555	0.020

ALC, aboveground live carbon; TEC, total ecosystem carbon; DAC, dead aboveground carbon; SOC, soil organic carbon; S′, species richness; H′, species entropy (Shannon‐Index).