Table 2.

Survival and branch loss for tree species in Hurricane Ivan for different wood density classesz.

Wood density (g/cm3)Sample size (number of trees)Survival (%)Survival (%) (recalculated by subtracting trees with ≥50% branch loss)Branch loss (%)
0.8 to 0.8924094 a87 a20 ab
0.6 to 0.6919778 b73 b18 b
0.5 to 0.5970373 bc66 c23 a
0.4 to 0.4960769 c62 c19 b
  • zNumbers in columns with different letters are significantly different at P = 0.05. No tree species occurred in the 0.7 to 0.79 class.