Analysis of field data

The analysis of field data from Nova Xavantina focused on testing for differences in, T50 , T5 ,T95 and the decline width, across species and seasons. Two-way repeated measure linear mixed-effect analysis of variance (ANOVA) models were fitted using the ‘lme’ function in the ‘nlme’ package (Pinheiro, Bates, DebRoy, and, & R Core Team, 2018). Season and species were included as fixed effects and individuals (trees) were included as a random effect in the models. Tukey post-hoc tests were used to test for differences between specific pairs of species in the significant models. Data analysis was performed using the R program, version 3.5.0 (R Core Team, 2018); all means are presented with ± standard errors and significance results are presented for 95% confidence interval (CI = 95%, α = 0.05).