Table 3.

Biodiversity indicators for experimental, control, and background territories.

	Projective cover (%)	Number of vascular species	Shannon index (H)	Euclidian distance between CSR scores of 2006 and 2014
Plot 1	70–80/70–80	21/16	2.1/1.9	28.8
Plot 3	60–70/50–60	22/17	3.5/3.2	16.4
Plot 4	50–60/45–50	21/10	3.7/1.5	33.4
Plot 5	60–70/70–75	15/13	1.7/2.2	18.9
Plot 6	90–95/80–85	16/6	1.4/0.5	18.2
Plot 7	80–90/70–75	15/12	1.7/1.5	13.4
Plot 8	50–60/40–45	16/13	2.8/2.0	15.9
Plot 9	70–80/70–80	19/22	2.5/2.9	15.0
Plot 2 (Control)	No vegetation/25–30	0/17	–/3.3	–
Reference plot	Did not measure the projective cover/55–60	16/10	–/2.0	–

First value in the cells—year 2006/second value—year 2014. The dash symbol “-” denotes absent or incomplete data.