Litter quality and decomposability of species from a Mediterranean succession depend on leaf traits but not on nitrogen supply

. 2009 Aug 26;104(6):1151–1161. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcp202

Results of three-way ANOVA (F-values and probabilities) on the effects of species, successional stage and N supply for the 17 species on each measured variable

Parameter	Species (d.f. = 14)	Successional stage (d.f. = 2)	N supply (d.f. = 1)
SLA_green	23·9***	212***^abc	12·5**
LDMC_green	48·7***	117***^bba	11·6**
LTS_green	33·3***	17·2***^bba	3·48^ns
LRF_green	37·6***	17·1***^bba	1·76^ns
LNC_green	1·86^ns	2·16^ns	47·27***
LPC_green	3·02*	14·9**^bac	1·24^ns
LCC_green	4·05**	1·21^ns	12·5**
LNC_litter	3·12*	15·5**^abc	19·6**
LPC_litter	2·21^ns	10·7**^aab	10·6**
LCC_litter	10·5***	3·36^ns	7·11*
LIG_litter	1·13^ns	0·99^ns	0·75^ns
CEL_litter	1·66^ns	0·70^ns	0·16^ns
HEM_litter	2·20^ns	1·38^ns	0·43^ns
LCH_litter	1·06^ns	0·35^ns	0·29^ns
HLQ_litter	3·08*	1·83^ns	0·88^ns
K_pot	11·0***	25·4***^aab	0·05^ns

Superscript letters indicate the results of post hoc tests (Student–Newman–Keuls comparisons) with successional stage as factor (results were identical for each nitrogen supply).

* P < 0·05; ** P < 0·01; *** P < 0·001; ns, not significant.