Fig. 10

Non-metric multi-dimensional scaling (NMDS) results showing individual species from sites sampled across the Taylor Complex fires (2004), Alaska, USA. Species (+) are plotted in the background with a joint bi-plot of environmental covariables, where arrows indicate direction of correlation and the length of the arrow indicates strength of the correlation. The cumulative R² for all three axes ~0.81, the first two axes shown here (NMDS1 and NMDS2) represent the majority of the variation with cumulative R² ~0.73. Ovals represent standard error around the location of the sites as plotted in ordination space. The final number of dimensions was three, with stress = 0.013. See Table 2 for correlations with environmental covariates and Additional file 5 for individual species