Ecological Archives M080-009-A5

Kyle G. Dexter, Terence D. Pennington, and Clifford W. Cunningham. 2010. Using DNA to assess errors in tropical tree identifications: How often are ecologists wrong and when does it matter? Ecological Monographs 80:267–286.

Appendix E (TABLE E1). Results of habitat-specialization analyses of Inga species in Madre de Dios as per the species delimitations revised based on the reciprocal illumination procedure.

Species	Rel. abundance floodplain	Rel. abundance terra firme	P value*	Classification result
acreana	0.127	0.022	<0.001	floodplain
alata	0.023	0.028	0.228	neutral
alba	0	0.043	<0.001	terra firme
auristellae	0.006	0.139	<0.001	terra firme
barbata	0.015	0.003	0.005	floodplain
bourgonii	0.111	0.023	<0.001	floodplain
brevipes	0	0.013	<0.001	terra firme
capitata ESU1	0.051	0.057	0.243	neutral
capitata ESU2	0.010	0.014	0.144	neutral
cayennensis	0.002	0.021	<0.001	terra firme
chartacea	0.013	0.015	0.260	neutral
cinnamomea	0.029	0.002	<0.001	floodplain
cordatoalata	0	0.009	0.003	terra firme
coruscans	0.018	0	<0.001	floodplain
densiflora	0.009	0.017	0.061	neutral
edulis	0.034	0.030	0.302	neutral
fosteriana	0.003	0	0.043	floodplain
heterophylla	0	0.005	0.015	terra firme
ingoides	0.004	0.001	0.054	neutral
killipiana	0	0.001	NA^†	too rare
laurina ESU1	0.042	0.024	0.015	floodplain
laurina ESU2	0	0.006	0.009	terra firme
leiocalycina	0.015	0.063	<0.001	terra firme
lineata	0	0.001	NA^†	too rare
longipes	0	0.001	NA^†	too rare
macrophylla	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
marginata	0.040	0.002	<0.001	floodplain
nobilis	0.110	0.018	<0.001	floodplain
poeppigiana	0.001	0.026	<0.001	terra firme
porcata	0.011	0	0.002	floodplain
psittacorum	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
punctata	0.020	0.006	0.007	floodplain
ruiziana ESU1	0.079	0.001	<0.001	floodplain
ruiziana ESU2	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
sapindoides	0.070	0.012	<0.001	floodplain
sertulifera	0.002	0.019	<0.001	terra firme
setosa	0.007	0	0.009	floodplain
steinbachii	0.014	0.002	0.004	floodplain
stenoptera ESU1	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
stenoptera ESU2	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
stipulacea	0.005	0.003	0.235	neutral
suaveolans	0.045	0.004	<0.001	floodplain
tenuistipula	0.004	0.006	0.232	neutral
thibaudiana	0.001	0.094	<0.001	terra firme
tocacheana	0	0.001	NA^†	too rare
tomentosa ESU1	0.028	0.001	<0.001	floodplain
tomentosa ESU2	0	0.014	<0.001	terra firme
umbellifera	0.006	0.052	<0.001	terra firme
venusta ESU1	0.008	0.032	<0.001	terra firme
venusta ESU2	0.004	0	0.036	floodplain
vera	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
morphosp. 17	0.003	0.056	<0.001	terra firme
morphosp. 18	0	0.004	0.019	terra firme
morphosp. 22	0	0.013	<0.001	terra firme
morphosp. 49	0.004	0	0.029	floodplain
morphosp. 50	0.002	0.002	0.315	neutral
morphosp. 54	0.008	0.006	0.225	neutral
morphosp. 55	0.006	0	0.014	floodplain
morphosp. 56	0.001	0	NA^†	too rare
morphosp. 58	0.002	0.002	0.315	neutral
morphosp. 75	0.006	0.089	<0.001	terra firme

*This is the P value for a binomial test that the species significantly prefers the habitat in which it has a greater relative abundance (see text for details).

^†These species had too low of a sample size of individuals to perform the binomial test for habitat specialization.

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