. 2008 Feb 19;156(1):155–167. doi: 10.1007/s00442-008-0963-8

Table 5.

Water content (% volume) at 5 cm depth and evaporation (mm day⁻¹) per temperature treatment^a (see Table 1) and per species combination^b. Data are mean values ± SE. Different letters indicate significant differences between treatments (P < 0.05). There were no significant interactions between temperature and competition treatments

	Water content		Evaporation
Temperature
1	88 ± 2^c	1	1.2 ± 0.02^a
2	79 ± 3^b	2	1.5 ± 0.03^b
3	60 ± 3^a	3	1.7 ± 0.04^c
4	60 ± 3^a	4	2.0 ± 0.05^d
Monocultures
S. fuscum	83 ± 5^c	S. fuscum	1.3 ± 0.05^a
S. balticum	66 ± 6^b	S. balticum	1.7 ± 0.08^bc
S. magellanicum	74 ± 4^bc	S. magellanicum	1.8 ± 0.08^c
S. cuspidatum	78 ± 4^bc	S. cuspidatum	1.8 ± 0.08^c
Mixtures
S. fuscum	74 ± 5^bc	S. fuscum + S. balticum	1.5 ± 0.07^a
S. balticum	49 ± 5^a	S. fuscum + S. balticum	1.5 ± 0.07^a
S. magellanicum	69 ± 5^b	S. magellanicum + S. balticum	1.6 ± 0.07^b
S. balticum	68 ± 5^b	S. magellanicum + S. balticum	1.6 ± 0.07^b
S. magellanicum	82 ± 5^c	S. magellanicum + S. cuspidatum	1.7 ± 0.08^bc
S. cuspidatum	73 ± 5^bc	S. magellanicum + S. cuspidatum	1.7 ± 0.08^bc

Number of observations for each temperature treatment: for water content, n = 50; for evaporation, n = 35. Number of observations for each competition treatment: for water content and for evaporation, n = 20