Table 2 Probabilities (95 % confidence intervals beneath in parentheses) that trees and snags in a slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa) forest in south Florida sampled in 1995 or 1996 remained in that state or undertook a transition by the time they were resampled in 2008. Probabilities were averaged across fire treatments (3-year vs. 6-year fire-return interval; wet-season burning vs. dry-season burning). Numbers of trees in each state shown in parentheses (number of trees at the final sampling period does not include recruitment since the initial sampling period).
| Â | State at final sampling period | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Initial state | Tree (n = 2193) | Decay stage 1 (n = 290) | Decay stage 2 (n = 670) | Down |
Tree (n = 2716) | 0.82 (0.76 – 0.87) | 0.09 (0.05 – 0.14) | 0.01 (0.01 – 0.02) | 0.08 (0.06 – 0.12) |
Decay stage 1 (n = 99) |  | 0.16 (0.08 – 0.27) | 0.37 (0.21 – 0.54) | 0.46 (0.34 – 0.59) |
Decay stage 2 (n = 708) |  |  | 0.80 (0.75 – 0.85) | 0.20 (0.15 – 0.25) |