Fire Ecology

Table 3 Pyrodiversity metric models describing plant richness in order of increasing model Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) values (Table 2; Additional file 2: Equation 2.2) in the Illilouette Creek basin in Yosemite National Park and Sugarloaf Valley in Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA. The analysis using Equation 3 (Additional file 2: Equation 2.3) included functional divergence at 50 m. 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

From: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity

Buffer (m)	Pyrodiversity metric	AIC
50	Functional divergence	1582.32
100	Simpson’s diversity	1586.58
75	Simpson’s diversity	1587.34
50	Functional dispersion	1588.12
50	Simpson’s diversity	1588.30
75	Functional divergence	1589.85
100	Functional richness	1593.33
75	Functional dispersion	1598.83
75	Functional richness	1599.58
25	All pyrodiversity indices	1602.51
100	Functional divergence	1602.98
250	Functional richness	1605.58
25	Functional richness	1606.05
25	Simpson’s diversity	1606.74
100	Functional dispersion	1608.21
250	Simpson’s diversity	1609.48
25	Functional dispersion	1609.67
250	Functional dispersion	1609.86
250	Functional divergence	1610.77
25	Functional divergence	1611.10
75	All pyrodiversity indices	1611.93
100	All pyrodiversity indices	1612.16
50	All pyrodiversity indices	1612.89
250	All pyrodiversity indices	1615.00

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