Table 1: Summary of responses and vulnerability to N and S deposition.
Shown are the number of species out of the 198 with robust results for N or S that monotonically decreased, showed no response, monotonically increased, or had a unimodal relationship (N only) with N or S deposition. Shadings represent qualitative levels of vulnerability: high (red - decrease with both), moderate (orange - decrease with one and unaffected by the other), conditional (yellow - either contrasting relationships or conditional on the rate of deposition), or neutral (grey - no relationship with either). Species that partially benefit (light green - increase with one and unaffected by the other), or strongly benefit (dark green, increase with both) are also indicated. Species with “U-shaped” N relationships (45 species) are omitted as not ecologically realistic, and species names in each category are in Supplemental Table S1 and S2.
S relationship | |||||
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Decrease | None | Increase | Total | ||
N relationship | Decrease | 11 (6%) | 5 (3%) | 14 (7%) | 30 (15%) |
None | 5 (3%) | 15 (8%) | 1 (1%) | 21 (11%) | |
Increase | 26 (13%) | 6 (3%) | 8 (4%) | 40 (20%) | |
Unimodal | 81 (41%) | 6 (3%) | 20 (10%) | 107 (54%) | |
Total | 123 (62%) | 32 (16%) | 43 (22%) | 198 (100%) |