Table 4. Canonical coefficients and inter-set correlations between ordination axes and environment factors.

	Variables	Canonical coefficients			Correlation coefficients
		Axis1	Axis2	Axis3	Axis1	Axis2	Axis3
Abiotic Environment	Altitude	−0.439	−0.834*	0.092	−0.288	−0.956	−0.039
	Aspect	−0.003	0.011	0.018	−0.006	−0.372	0.132
	Slope degree	−0.028	−0.103	0.088	0.917	−0.258	0.026
	Topography	0.005	0.035	−0.377	0.173	−0.238	−0.663
	Bare rock	0.002	0.013	−0.471	0.270	−0.200	−0.767
	Longitude	0.988	−0.172	0.154	0.902	−0.431	−0.011
Biotic Environment	Height of tree layer	0.544	−0.272	0.086	0.805	−0.345	0.421
	DBH of tree layer	−0.045	0.039	0.564	0.212	−0.640	0.676
	Coverage of herb layer	0.324	−0.391	−0.548	0.233	−0.858	−0.375
	Species diversity	0.149	−0.168	0.026	−0.377	−0.815	0.087
	No. of present species	−0.752	−0.364	0.078	−0.654	−0.743	0.120

p < 0.05