Table 1.

Best-performing plot for each year (assessed across seven ecosystem functions) and multifunctionality achieved in each year by that plot

	Rank (percentage of maximum multifunctionality) by year
Plot number (richness)	1998	2000	2002
178 (8)	1 (95.6%)	5 (83.3%)	27 (66.2%)
273 (16)	29 (68.8%)	1 (105.0%)*	13 (70.1%)
206 (8)	11 (71.6%)	68 (64.8%)	1 (77.7%)
Best-performing monoculture	0 (72.4%)	0 (67.3%)	0 (65.9%)

Percentage of maximum multifunctionality for a plot is computed as the mean percentage of the maximum that it achieved for each function when the maximum level for each function in a given year is taken from across all plots.

^*Because the maximum level for each function was computed as a mean of the top eight plots, some individual plots achieve >100% of this level for one or more functions.