Table 1.
Summary of the aggregate vegetation classes (AVCs) used for assessment of vegetation condition.
Fig 1.
Box plots (panel I-X) showing the spread of each measured soil property for each of the major soil types from 304 individual soil samples.
GWG and SWG represent groundwater and surface water gley soils respectively.
Fig 2.
Box plots (panel XI-XX) showing the spread of each measured soil property for each of the major soil types from 304 individual soil samples.
Table 2.
Correlations among physical, chemical and biological soil attributes.
Table 3.
Total variance (eigenvalue), proportion and cumulative variance (prop var and cum var) explained by factor analysis using correlation matrix (standardized data) on the measured attributes.
Table 4.
Proportion of variance (loadings) using varimax rotation and communality estimates for soil attributes of the retained factors.
Table 5.
Soil attribute means and factor scores in the different soil types.
Table 6.
Effect of Aggregate Vegetation Class (AVC) on factor scores and soil attribute means.
Table 7.
Tests of between-subjects effects.
Fig 3.
Discrimination plots showing 95% confidence circles around the means for soil types (Panel A) and AVCs (Panel C). Panels B and D are the respective cluster analyses dendrograms using a complete linkage method.