Table S1. GLM results for differences in environmental conditions between the forest understory and gaps beneath adult Cornuscontroversa andPrunusgrayana.

Beneath Cornus adults / Beneath Prunus adults
FUs
(mean ±SE) / Gaps
(mean ± SE) / Estimate / Z value / FUs
(mean ± SE) / Gaps
(mean ± SE) / Estimate / Z value
Canopy openness (%) / 13.29±0.25 / 21.73±0.73 / 8.446 / 10.99 *** / 13.73 ±0.92 / 24.22±0.83 / 10.489 / 8.465***
Soil water contents (%) / 17.42 ± 1.84 / 21.25 ± 1.03 / 3.832 / 3.009** / 22.63 ± 0.37 / 22.62 ± 0.30 / -0.009 / -0.028
Soil C concentration (%) / 21.10 ±1.77 / 20.91±0.82 / -0.186 / -0.096 / 20.42±2.37 / 16.86±1.62 / -3.552 / -1.235
Soil N concentration (%) / 1.30 ±0.08 / 1.26±0.41 / -0.041 / 0.476 / 1.4±0.16 / 1.16 ±0.08 / -0.239 / -1.345
Soil P concentration (%) / 6.97± 0.56 / 6.90 ± 0.55 / -6.929 / -0.088 / 8.23 ± 0.97 / 7.68 ± 0.35 / -55.29 / -0.534
PH / 4.24 ±0.07 / 4.20 ±0.03 / -0.043 / -0.531 / 3.83 ±0.06 / 3.91 ±0.04 / 0.071 / 0.992

*P<0.05; **P<0.01; ***P<0.001

This table has been published in our previous paper (Bayandala et al.J. Ecol. 104, 765–772,2016).

Table S2. Initial number of Prunusgrayanaseedlings observed in 2011, 2012 and 2013 beneath Prunus andCornus adults
FUs / Gaps
Replicate of adults / Replicate of adults
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
Beneath / 2011 / Quadrat 1 / 48 / 39 / 54 / 40 / 38 / 50 / 54 / 58 / 52 / 54 / 60 / 46 / 50 / 56
Prunusadults / Quadrat 2 / 48 / 50 / 57 / 44 / 45 / 48 / 56 / 58 / 50 / 48 / 56 / 55 / 55 / 54
2012 / Quadrat 1 / 24 / 6 / 22 / 14 / 4 / 28 / 23 / 47 / 36 / 30 / 40 / 29 / 28 / 9
Quadrat 2 / 18 / 19 / 37 / 14 / 15 / 31 / 17 / 31 / 27 / 23 / 46 / 39 / 25 / 10
2013 / Quadrat 1 / 9 / 1 / 7 / 3 / 3 / 8 / 7 / 7 / 26 / 11 / 22 / 12 / 4 / 0
Quadrat 2 / 5 / 7 / 11 / 2 / 6 / 13 / 4 / 7 / 16 / 8 / 18 / 14 / 5 / 3
Beneath / 2011 / Quadrat 1 / 32 / 50 / 49 / 39 / 55 / 43 / 42 / 47 / 38 / 48 / 44 / 45 / 50 / 54
Cornusadults / Quadrat 2 / 41 / 0 / 50 / 36 / 46 / 35 / 44 / 50 / 54 / 55 / 0 / 39 / 49 / 46
2012 / Quadrat
1 / 20 / 27 / 30 / 23 / 39 / 18 / 22 / 38 / 29 / 35 / 34 / 40 / 41 / 42
Quadrat 2 / 26 / 0 / 40 / 27 / 34 / 19 / 23 / 39 / 43 / 32 / 0 / 32 / 40 / 33
2013 / plot1 / 12 / 18 / 26 / 20 / 33 / 8 / 10 / 36 / 22 / 23 / 0 / 33 / 34 / 34
plot2 / 23 / 0 / 14 / 24 / 21 / 8 / 14 / 38 / 37 / 26 / 0 / 29 / 22 / 27