APPENDIX
Table A1. Functional traits variation between the three PFTs identified in the paramo “El Verjón”. Statistical differences from the ANOVAS and Kruskal-Wallis test are shown next to the trait using *** for P < 0.001, ** for P < 0.01, and * for P < 0.05. Plant functional traits that do not share a lowercase letter are statistically different from one another as determined by post-hoc Tukey’s and Wilcox test.