Table 1.
Hypotheses defining the structural equation models.
The structural equation models relating plant traits to animal body size CWMs were implemented according to expected relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, animal body size CWMs, and animal cumulative body size.
Fig 1.
Structural equation model showing the relationship between the abiotic environment, disturbance, plant functional traits and community-weighted means of animal body size for moths, bees, insectivorous and frugivorous birds.
Standardized coefficients are given for positive (solid lines) and negative (dashed lines) relationships. Double-headed arrows denote correlations of predictors. Dotted lines indicate hypothesized relationships that were not supported by the data, i.e. which turned out to be non-significant in the regression models. R2 values are marginal, i.e. give fixed effect explained variance. See S4 Table for unstandardized coefficients, individual P-values, and conditional R2 values. (a) Moths, (b) Bees, (c) Frugivorous birds, (d) Insectivorous birds