Fig. 3

Influence of time since fire and fire severity on relative abundance (top row) and proportion of quadrats with mature individuals (bottom row), for silver banksia, heath teatree, and prickly teatree in Gariwerd, Australia. The x-axis shows the time since the fire in years for all plots. In the top row, the y-axis demonstrates the relative abundance of individuals at a site from 0 to 33 quadrats, converted to a percentage of 0 to 100%. In the bottom row, the y-axis demonstrates the proportion of quadrats with mature individuals at a site. For each plot, the full line shows predicted models (sometimes called estimated marginal means) for high fire severity, while the dotted line shows the predicted models for low fire severity. Red-colored shading demonstrates the confidence intervals (specifically, highest posterior density intervals) for high fire severity while blue-colored shading demonstrates the confidence interval for low fire severity. The points show the observed data, colored in red and blue for high and low fire severity, respectively. For the bottom row, the vertical dotted line represents the time to maturity obtained from the Victorian Vital Attributes database; 5 to 10 years for silver banskia and 3 to 5 years for the teatree species, respectively