Table 3 Table 3.

Variance partitioning results for phylogenetic and taxonomic turnover at three different spatial scales for different environmental variables as explained by positive eigenvectors selected through forward selection

	Space	Geomorphology	Climate	Soils	Soils and geomorphology	Climate and spatial distance	Soils and spatial distance	Geomorphology and spatial distance	Environment space
Phylogenetic turnover
Fine scale	0.4	0.07	0.14	0.16	0.13	0.07	0.27	0.02	0.35
Mid scale	0.2	0.004	0.15	0.15	0.06	0.17	0.22	0.01	0.37
Broad scale	0.33	0.34	0.41	0.32	0.03	0.19	0.01	0.14	0.51
Taxonomic turnover
Fine scale	0.03	0.06	0.26	0.24	0.18	0.29	0.21	0.11	0.44
Mid scale	0.01	0.03	0.28	0.23	0.13	0.27	0.18	0.04	0.49
Broad scale	0.42	0.41	0.52	0.42	0.12	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.61

Components are proportion of variance explained by each variable; Environment |space is the proportion of variance explained by the full environmental variables set after accounting spatial distances (see text for details). Only significant (P < 0.01) results are given in bold