Figure 4
From: Responses in Bird Communities to Wildland Fires in Southern California
Two-dimensional MDS plots for sites and vegetation types where a significant difference was detected between the bird communities within the razed and non-razed samples: (A) the low-elevation chaparral, (B) the low-elevation coastal sage scrub, and (C) high-elevation grassland in San Diego County, California. Each marker represents the bird community from one sample, and each marker’s position correlates to the similarity between the sample and those samples around it. The closer two markers are, the more similar are the bird communities at each. Distant markers represent less similarity between samples. Open markers are non-razed samples and solid markers represent razed samples.