Appendix E. A correlation matrix with the three variables used in the principal-components analysis: relative humidity, soil moisture, and total understory cover.

A correlation matrix with the three variables used in the principal-components analysis: relative humidity, soil moisture, and total understory cover

Appendix B. Species-by-trait matrix.

Species-by-trait matrix

Appendix D. Results of a Kruskal-Wallis test of mean rank comparing total shrub cover and total understory cover across buffer and undisturbed stream edges with respect to disturbance treatment and location on the transect.

Results of a Kruskal-Wallis test of mean rank comparing total shrub cover and total understory cover across buffer and undisturbed stream edges with respect to disturbance treatment and location on the transect

Appendix A. List of plant functional traits considered in this study with their surrogate functions.

List of plant functional traits considered in this study with their surrogate functions

Appendix C. Results of an ANCOVA comparing moss growth and moss cover between buffers and undisturbed stream edges.

Results of an ANCOVA comparing moss growth and moss cover between buffers and undisturbed stream edges

Appendix D. Mean number of species per functional traits under different intensity of disturbances.

Mean number of species per functional traits under different intensity of disturbances

Data for meta-analysis and synthesis of boreal edges

Data from each study is on a separate page, labelled with the study area and study number. Please see the article Table 2. On each page, data are at different distances from the edge along transects for different response variables. Please see the article Table S1 for details on sampling and data collection