Table 3. Final models from multiple stepwise regressions between C storage and different component of variables (N = 500) in DHS plot.

Model		R2	AIC
Environment	2.43Convexity −7.73PC1 + 102.75	0.30	5014.06
Dominance	−0.27LA.CWM + 336.86LDMC.CWM + 267.75WD.CWM + 3.15DBH.CWM−294.64	0.33	4990.71
Diversity	−55.75LA.FDis −45.03LDMC.FDis + 91.10DBH.FDis + 71.44	0.34	4988.71
Environment + Dominance	1.73Convexity −4.21PC1 + 244.17WD.CWM + 2.92DBH.CWM −152.43	0.38	4959.26
Environment + Diversity	2.05Convexity −3.27PC1 −30.09LA.FDis + 71.27DBH.FDis + 48.83	0.38	4954.22
Dominance + Diversity	813.54LDMC.CWM + 0.52SLA.CWM + 329.70WD.CWM −36.36LA.FD is −27.64WD.FDis + 89.90DBH.FDis −529.93	0.39	4948.63
All variables	1.42Convexity −3.47PC1 + 724.05LDMC.CWM + 0.43SLA.CWM + 360.16WD.CWM +32.66LDMC.FDis −41.50WD.FDis + 70.54DBH.FDis −509.15	0.42	4927.25

R² is adjusted coefficients for the regression model. AIC, Akaike Information Criterion. See Table 1 for abbreviations.