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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 16.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Plants. 2019 Jul 1;5(7):697–705. doi: 10.1038/s41477-019-0442-8

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
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%)