Table 4.

Wood tissue density (WD; g cm^-3) of coarse roots, stem and branches of 14 woody species in a seasonally dry Ethiopian Highland forest; see Table 1 for details.

Leaf habit	Species	WDroot	WDstem	WDbranch
Angiosperm, deciduous	A. schimperiana	0.60 ± 0.012 de	0.49 ± 0.013 ab	0.62 ± 0.040 ab
	B. micrantha	0.57 ± 0.018 cde	0.58 ± 0.005 bcd	0.64 ± 0.024 ab
	C. macrostachyus	0.39 ± 0.018 ab	0.47 ± 0.011 ab	0.50 ± 0.072 a
	C. molle	0.48 ± 0.010 abcd	0.62 ± 0.025 cde	0.67 ± 0.046 ab
	S. abyssinica	0.38 ± 0.029 a	0.44 ± 0.013 a	0.74 ± 0.079 b
	Mean	0.48 ± 0.045 A	0.52 ± 0.034 A	0.63 ± 0.039 A
Angiosperm, evergreen	A. dimidiata	0.53 ± 0.047 bcde	0.57 ± 0.006 bcd	0.63 ± 0.050 ab
	C. aurea	0.67 ± 0.064 efa	0.75 efa	0.61 ± 0.053 ab
	C. mildbraedii	0.77 ± 0.044 fa	0.82 fa	0.78 ± 0.035 b
	D. abyssinica	0.53 ± 0.020 bcde	0.71 ± 0.014 efa	0.64 ± 0.031 ab
	E. capensis	0.50 ± 0.022 abcd	0.54 ± 0.015 abc	0.71 ± 0.038 ab
	M. lanceolata	0.48 ± 0.036 abcd	0.56 ± 0.010 abc	0.50 ± 0.018 a
	P. africana	0.56 ± 0.015 cde	0.68 ± 0.036 defa	0.63 ± 0.019 ab
	T. nobilis	0.52 ± 0.024 abcde	n.a.	0.75 ± 0.038 b
	Mean	0.57 ± 0.035 A	0.66 ± 0.038 B	0.66 ± 0.032 A
Gymnosperm	A. falcatus	0.42 ± 0.002 abc	0.46 ± 0.004 ab	0.48 ± 0.056 a

^n.a. not available.

Small letters indicate significant differences between species within each organ, large letters indicate significant differences between means of deciduous/evergreen angiosperms (Tukey test, p<0.05; mean ± SE; n_roots=4-6, n_stem=3-6, n_branch=5-6).