Functional Traits Help Predict Post-Disturbance Demography of Tropical Trees
Figure 2
Results of the Bayesian Network analysis.
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) showing the network of relationships between the population growth rate (), demographic parameters (
, recruitment rate,
, mortality rate) and functional traits (see main text for labels). Grey (white) indicates variables measured after disturbance (in control conditions). Dashed boxes indicate variables having no parent (explicative variable) in the network: SV, WD, LNC and
. The figure represents a statistical summary of the inferred relationships. Numbers indicate the posterior estimates of the model parameters: the intercept
and the proportion of variance explained by the parents (r2; see relation 1) are given in boxes, the regression coefficients (
) are shown on arrows. Arrow width is proportional to the corresponding standardized regression coefficient. Italic numbers are estimates of the residual variance (
; see relation 1, to be compared with raw variances in Table S3 in Appendix S1).