Shade, light, and stream temperature responses to riparian thinning in second-growth redwood forests of northern California
Fig 5
NMS ordinations of stream thermal regimes.
Non-metric multidimensional scaling ordinations of the structure of stream thermal regimes in response to riparian thinning in northern California second-growth redwood forests. Each point represents the structure of a stream thermal regime at a site with colors indicating reach type and shapes indicating pre-treatment or post-treatment years for each watershed. The proximity of points provides an indication of how similar thermal regimes are between reaches (upstream reference, thinned, downstream), years (pre-treatment, post-treatment), and seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer) for the Tectah and Lost Man watersheds. Ellipses indicate 95% confidence intervals around the grouping variable of reach. PerMANOVA tests indicated whether the structure of stream thermal regimes differed significantly by the BACI effect of Reach*Year (α = 0.05).