Although some of these effects did not reach statistical significance in every stage, the overall trend suggests that as plants grow, they increasingly exhibit preferential associations with particular topographic conditions.
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Effects of Microtopography on Neighborhood Diversity and Competition in Subtropical Forests.
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Elevation and TRI influence community structure through their contributions to landscape complexity and heterogeneity, while the marginally significant effects of flowdir and slope highlight the role of hydrological and topographic conditions in shaping plant growth and competition.
Specifically, the initially positive effect of slope on conspecific neighborhood density (CND) gradually diminished and eventually inverted to a negative impact, while its negative effect on heterospecific neighborhood density (HND) likewise weakened and reversed to a positive trend.