Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of species abundance data from four layers of two forest communities in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong of China.
Fig 1.
Observed and fitted species-abundance distributions (SADs) in respective four layers within the two communities in Dinghushan Biosphere, Guangdong of China.
(Observed: the observed number of species; Fitted: the model-expected number of species. DH: evergreen needle- and broad-leaved mixed forest at Feitianyan; DK: monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest at Sanbaofeng).
Table 2.
Comparisons of the goodness-of-fit of seven SAD models to species abundance data from four layers of two forest communities in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong of China.
Table 3.
Comparisons of AICs for seven SAD models fitting the species abundance data from four layers of two forest communities in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong of China.
Table 4.
Comparisons of BICs for seven SAD models fitting the species abundance data from four layers of two forest communities in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong of China.
Table 5.
Comparisons of the observed and five-SAD-model-expected total numbers of species in four layers of two communities in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong of China.
Fig 2.
SADs predicted by left-truncated logCauchy (LC) models on octave (log2) scale in four layers of two communities in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve, Guangdong of China.
(Area below each distribution curve is set as unity).