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Table 1: Variables measured to characterise vegetation structure <strong>and</strong> tree <strong>and</strong> shrub composition in the<br />

sample plots 1 .<br />

1. HERBCOVER: % cover of herbaceous plants<br />

2. LSHCOVER: % cover of low shrubs<br />

3. TSHCOVER: % cover of tall shrubs<br />

4. TREECOVER: % cover of trees<br />

5. GRCOVER: % cover of bare ground<br />

1 Cover variables were recorded as percentages of the sample plot.<br />

Table 2: Pearson correlation coefficients between the five sampled vegetation variables in the studied<br />

plots (n=185).<br />

Herbaceous<br />

cover<br />

Low shrub<br />

cover<br />

Tall shrub<br />

cover<br />

Tree cover Bare ground<br />

cover<br />

Herbaceous cover 1 -0.418** -0.319** -0.698** -0.254**<br />

Low shrub cover 1 0.630** -0.161** 0.110<br />

Tall shrub cover 1 -0.250** -0.011<br />

Tree cover 1 -0.138<br />

Bare ground<br />

1<br />

cover<br />

P < 0.01, correlation is significant at the 0.01 level<br />

P < 0.001, correlation is significant at the 0.05 level<br />

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Working Group International Conference, September 21-27, 2010, Bragança, Portugal. J.C. Azevedo, M. Feliciano, J. Castro & M.A. Pinto (eds.)<br />

2010, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal.

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