Table 3.

Variation partitioning of carabid community composition among explanatory variables.

	Mountain	Sites within a Mountain	Year	Error
Diversity	0.264 **	0.051	0.373 **	0.312
Richness	0.204 ***	0.006	0.562 ***	0.229
Abundance	0.352 ***	0.062 *	0.313 **	0.273
CCA1	0.404 ***	0.167 ***	0.048 ***	0.381
CCA2	0.110	0. 131	0.173	0.586

Factors with the first and second largest effects are shown in bold and italics, respectively. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05.