highly significantp < 0.001
at the margin of significancep = 0.052
As detailed in the representative scatter and violin plots ( Figure 6 c–h), slope showed a highly significant positive correlation with sugar content (“r = 0.346, p < 0.001”), while aspect exhibited a weak negative correlation trend at the margin of significance (“r = −0.187, p = 0.052”), and canopy layer showed no significant correlation (“r = −0.053, p = 0.584”).