Table 2.

Residual variance partitioning for the nutrient concentration in phylogenetic signal (λ), non-phylogenetic variation among species (γ) and intraspecies variability (ρ) forr each organ. Means and lower and upper 95 % credible intervals (CI) are shown.

Organ	λ	CI	γ	CI	ρ	CI
Leaf
Calcium	0.44	[0.00, 0.81]	0.39	[0.06, 0.79]	0.17	[0.07, 0.27]
Magnesium	0.26	[0.00, 0.57]	0.48	[0.21, 0.78]	0.26	[0.21, 0.37]
Sulphur	0.05	[0.00, 0.26]	0.84	[0.63, 0.94]	0.11	[0.06, 0.17]
Potassium	0.11	[0.00, 0.39]	0.63	[0.38, 0.84]	0.26	[0.14, 0.37]
Phosphorus	0.10	[0.01, 0.31]	0.65	[0.46, 0.81]	0.24	[0.14, 0.35]
Nitrogen	0.48	[0.10, 0.96]	0.32	[0.00, 0.64]	0.20	[0.04, 0.32]
Stem
Calcium	0.28	[0.00, 0.74]	0.61	[0.18, 0.93]	0.12	[0.05, 0.20]
Magnesium	0.14	[0.00, 0.48]	0.59	[0.29, 0.82]	0.28	[0.15, 0.41]
Sulphur	0.04	[0.00, 0.17]	0.89	[0.74, 0.96]	0.08	[0.04, 0.12]
Potassium	0.18	[0.00, 0.49]	0.61	[0.32, 0.85]	0.22	[0.11, 0.32]
Phosphorus	0.11	[0.01, 0.30]	0.57	[0.39, 0.74]	0.31	[0.19, 0.44]
Nitrogen	0.10	[0.00, 0.41]	0.54	[0.26, 0.77]	0.37	[0.21, 0.53]
Coarse roots
Calcium	0.41	[0.00, 0.73]	0.33	[0.04, 0.63]	0.26	[0.11, 0.40]
Magnesium	0.13	[0.00, 0.40]	0.41	[0.17, 0.62]	0.46	[0.27, 0.66]
Sulphur	0.12	[0.00, 0.43]	0.47	[0.20, 0.70]	0.41	[0.24, 0.59]
Potassium	0.08	[0.00, 0.34]	0.73	[0.49, 0.90]	0.18	[0.09, 0.28]
Phosphorus	0.14	[0.01, 0.35]	0.51	[0.30, 0.72]	0.36	[0.21, 0.54]
Nitrogen	0.14	[0.00, 0.58]	0.53	[0.16, 0.78]	0.33	[0.17, 0.51]
Fine roots
Calcium	0.15	[0.00, 0.49]	0.64	[0.34, 0.89]	0.21	[0.10, 0.33]
Magnesium	0.20	[0.00, 0.67]	0.42	[0.05, 0.70]	0.38	[0.17, 0.59]
Sulphur	0.04	[0.00, 0.22]	0.85	[0.68, 0.95]	0.11	[0.05, 0.18]
Potassium	0.78	[0.50, 0.96]	0.05	[0.00, 0.23]	0.17	[0.05, 0.32]
Phosphorus	0.16	[0.01, 0.45]	0.61	[0.33, 0.84]	0.23	[0.09, 0.38]
Nitrogen	0.82	[0.50, 0.96]	0.04	[0.00, 0.24]	0.14	[0.04, 0.27]