Fig 1.
The 37 study islands in the Thousand Island Lake in Zhejiang Province, China.
Study islands were numbered in order of decreasing area.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the 37 study islands in the Thousand Island Lake, China.
Table 2.
Results of nestedness analysis using NODF program for species by site matrix of breeding bird and lizard communities on 37 study islands in the Thousand Island Lake, China.
Table 3.
Linear regression models and stepwise regressions of species richness on island attributes (island area, isolation, and habitat richness) for breeding birds and lizards on 37 study islands in the Thousand Island Lake, China.
Fig 2.
The multiple-site Sørensen dissimilarity (βSOR) and its components of turnover (βSIM) and nestedness-resultant (βSNE) of breeding bird and lizard communities on 37 study islands in the Thousand Island Lake, China.
βratio indicates the ratio of βSNE to βSOR.
Fig 3.
The relationship of overall beta diversity (βsor) and its components of turnover (βsim) and nestedness (βsne), with differences in island area, isolation and habitat richness of breeding bird communities on 37 study islands surveyed from 2007 to 2012 in the Thousand Island Lake, China.
Abbreviations: slope of multiple regression model, a; intercept of multiple regression model, b; Pearson correlation coefficient, r; p-value of Mantel permutation test, p.
Fig 4.
The relationship of overall beta diversity (βsor) and its components of turnover (βsim) and nestedness (βsne), with differences in island area, isolation and habitat richness of lizard communities on 37 study islands surveyed from 2007 to 2008 in the Thousand Island Lake, China.
Abbreviations: slope of multiple regression model, a; intercept of multiple regression model, b; Pearson correlation coefficient, r; p-value of Mantel permutation test, p.