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Fig. 2

From: Plant community response to fuel break construction and goat grazing in a southern California shrubland

Fig. 2

Non-metric multidimensional scaling plot (NMDS) of Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix based on species composition from survey plots. Each point represents a survey plot, and the compositional dissimilarity between plots is indicated by the spread along the two NMDS axes. Undisturbed chaparral plots (control, pink circles) are clustered more closely together than fuel break plots (blue triangles), indicating that they are more similar in species composition. Control plots have an abundance of native woody vegetation, whereas fuel break plots are largely comprised of native and non-native herbs. Labeling priority was given to more abundant and frequent species. Species codes: ADFA Adenostoma fasciculatum, ARCTO3 Arctostaphylos, BRDI3 Bromus diandrus, BRMA3 Bromus madritensis, BRTE Bromus tectorum, CEBEB Cercocarpus betuloides, CEPE Ceanothus perplexans, ERFA2 Eriogonum fasciculatum, MALA6 Malosma laurina, PLAGI Plagiobothrys, QUAG Quercus agrifolia, QUBE5 Quercus berberidifolia, QUEN Quercus engelmannii, STEPH Stephanomeria, VUMY Vulpia myuros. B(species) represents a dead branch of a live individual at the sampling point. Final stress of three-dimensional solution = 0.191 after 20 iterations

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