Fig 1.
Five selected stand structural attributes included in this study: understory density (A), volume of coarse woody debris (B), snag density (C), stand basal area (D), and litter depth (E).
Table 1.
List of five core attributes selected to be included in the index of stand structural complexity and their ecological importance for different faunal groups.
Table 2.
Results showing the mean values (SD) of the five stand structural attributes included in the index of stand structural complexity and the values of index of stand structural complexity expressed in percentage in relation to the seven different habitat types.
Fig 2.
Relationship between the mean values of the index of stand structural complexity and seven habitat types.
Bars with different letters were significantly different according to a Holm-Sidak post hoc test. Small bars are ± standard deviation.
Table 3.
Mean and range (in brackets) values of the five stand structural attributes associated with the estimated index of stand structural complexity categorized as low (0–33%), moderate (34–66%), and high (67–100%) in Andean temperate forests.
Table 4.
Results showing the mean (SD) values of both the stand structural attributes and the index of stand structural complexity for the eight disturbance treatments.
Fig 3.
Relationship between the mean values of the index of stand structural complexity along a disturbance gradient.
Bars with different letters were significantly different according to a multiple comparison post hoc test. Small bars are ± standard deviation.