Figure 2
From: Wildfires Alter Rodent Community Structure Across Four Vegetation Types in Southern California, USA
Multivariate Community Analysis. A: Nonmetric multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) with B: hierarchical clustering showing how the rodent communities in razed plots (R) of coastal sage scrub (CSS), chaparral (CHAP), grassland (GRASS), and woodland (WOOD) shifted away from the communities in the non-razed plots (NR). C: Vectors of individual species abundances in relation to the razed (✱) and non-razed (◆) communities showed positive responses for both Peromyscus maniculatus (PEMA), and Dipodomys simulans (DISI) toward the fire-impacted communities, whereas Peromyscus californicus (PECA), Peromyscus boylii (PEBO), Chaetodipus fallax (CHFA), Microtus californicus (MICA), Neotoma lepida (NELE), Chaetodipus californicus (CHCA), and Peromyscus eremicus (PEER) showed positive responses toward non-razed communities.