Abiotic drivers shape seed inputs and outputs in a tropical wetland on Croton trinitatis population

Ecological Processes

Table 1 Coefficients of linear mixed effect models to explain the main effects of topographical conditions (included three levels, low, mid, and high position), seasonal floods (have two levels, post-flood and post-dry) and, type of grasslands (have two levels, native and cultivated) on growth stages of population (adults and seedling) and population-related ecological processes (seed bank and predation), Pantanal wetland

Response variable	Model	Estimate	t	p
Adult plants	Gradient
	~ Low	− 0.03	− 0.37	0.71
	~ Mid	0.17	1.81	0.07
	Type of grasslands
	~ Field	− 0.32	− 4.21	0.001
	Seasonality
	Dry_2014	− 0.15	− 1.38	0.16
	Flood_2014	− 0.47	− 4.33	0.001
	Flood_2015	− 0.18	− 1.71	0.08
Seedling bank	Gradient
	~ Low	− 0.17	− 2.52	0.01
	~ Mid	− 0.09	− 1.33	0.18
	Type of grasslands
	~ Field	− 0.03	− 0.60	0.54
	Seasonality
	Dry_2014	0.27	3.39	0.001
	Flood_2014	0.29	3.70	0.001
	Flood_2015	0.34	4.22	0.001
Seed bank	Gradient
	~ Low	− 0.03	− .041	0.67
	~ Mid	0.06	0.72	0.46
	Type of grasslands
	~ Field	0.01	0.10	0.91
	Seasonality
	Dry_2014	− 0.50	− 4.78	0.001
	Flood_2014	0.25	2.41	0.001
	Flood_2015	− 0.67	− 6.47	0.001
Predation seeds	Gradient
	~ Low	0.03	0.45	0.001
	~ Mid	− 0.02	− 0.29	0.77
	Type of grasslands
	~ Field	0.29	4.42	0.001
	Seasonality
	Dry_2014	− 0.01	− 0.12	0.28
	Flood_2014	− 0.02	− 0.23	0.81
	Flood_2015	− 0.20	− 2.11	0.001