Table 9

Table 9. V-Index, species and PFT indicators of vegetation structure, plot age and tree biomass

Variable Mean
Height Basal
area Plot
age Tree
wt¹ Tree
wt²

V-Index 0.752 0.633 0.802 0.805 0.788

0.000 0.001 0.000 0.000 0.000

Species richness 0.766 0.587 0.788 0.815 0.792

0.000 0.003 0.000 0.000 0.000

PFT richness 0.782 0.592 0.814 0.848 0.824

0.000 0.002 0.000 0.000 0.000

First line = linear “r” correlate; second line = “P” value.
Tree wt¹ and tree wt² = tree biomass based on allometric equations of Ketterings et al. (2001) and Brown (1997), respectively.


Variable	Mean Height	Basal area	Plot age	Tree wt¹	Tree wt²

V-Index	0.752	0.633	0.802	0.805	0.788
	0.000	0.001	0.000	0.000	0.000
Species richness	0.766	0.587	0.788	0.815	0.792
	0.000	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.000
PFT richness	0.782	0.592	0.814	0.848	0.824
	0.000	0.002	0.000	0.000	0.000