Table 2. Percent cover of vegetation types across a five-year chronosequence of insect-induced tree mortality.
| Year | Forb | Gramminoid | Shrub | Tree | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.5 | (±0.7)b | 0.9 | (±0.4)c | 3.4 | (±3.0)b | 1.9 | (±1.0) |
| 1 | 3.0 | (±0.6)ab | 1.5 | (±0.3)b | 3.6 | (±1.3)ab | 4.2 | (±2.9) |
| 2 | 7.2 | (±2.2)a | 14.9 | (±9.5)a | 33.9 | (±12.2)a | 3.2 | (±1.7) |
| 3 | 10.5 | (±3.6)a | 5.2 | (±1.3)a | 4.7 | (±3.5)b | 0.7 | (±0.5) |
| 4 | 7.9 | (±4.3)ab | 1.8 | (±0.5)bc | 11.3 | (±9.9)ab | 1.5 | (±0.7) |
| P-value | <0.05 | <0.001 | <0.05 | >0.05 | ||||
Notes.
Values are untransformed means ± 1 SE, P-value from one-way ANOVA (Kruskal–Wallis tests when assumptions of normality were not met). Means followed by different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05) based on LSD or Wilcoxon post-hoc comparisons.