Fig. 5
From: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity
Species richness response to A soils, B climatic water deficit (CWD), and C the interaction between burn severity and functional divergence throughout the study in the Illilouette Creek basin in Yosemite National Park and Sugarloaf Valley in Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA. Public data were collected beginning in early 1900s. Field data were collected from 2002 to 2013 to observe naturally occurring patterns of forest and understory structure and composition in relationship to fire regime. The interaction between burn severity and functional divergence is significant, although only moderate-severity fires had a unique pattern. For A, whisker plots represent the regression coefficients: whiskers indicate the 95% confidence intervals, black dots are the mean, and gray dots are the data. For B and C, curves represent the regression coefficients, shaded areas are the 95% confidence intervals, and gray dots are the data