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Table 2.

Correspondence for contrasted geographical, life history, habitat and taxonomic groupings between (A) estimated leaf density (LD, 100 mg mm⁻³) and LDMC and (B) SLA and the product of LDMC and LT

			(A) LD predicting LDMC			(B) (LDM7C × LT) predicting SLA
Grouping	No. of species	LD ± s.d.	r²	Slope ± CI	Constant ± CI	r²	Slope ± CI	Constant ± CI
All species	1905	22·5 ± 10·6	0·564***	0·835 ± 0·013	0·591 ± 0·059	0·731***	–0·715 ± 0·017	1·797 ± 0·013
Region
UK	1186	23·1 ± 10·6	0·549***	0·816 ± 0·016^a	0·626 ± 0·075^a	0·713***	–0·692 ± 0·020^a	1·783 ± 0·015^a
S Europe	793	21·9 ± 9·7	0·533***	0·862 ± 0·022^b	0·498 ± 0·096^a	0·801***	–0·729 ± 0·023^a	1·810 ± 0·018^a
Canary Islands	124	17·8 ± 9·6	0·701***	0·768 ± 0·040^ab	0·715 ± 0·159^a	0·771***	–0·703 ± 0·053^a	1·783 ± 0·040^a
Life history
Short-lived	778	20·6 ± 9·9	0·516***	0·689 ± 0·017^a	1·106 ± 0·077^a	0·531***	–0·741 ± 0·038^a	1·789 ± 0·023^a
Herbaceous perennial	895	21·3 ± 9·2	0·509***	0·848 ± 0·020^b	0·579 ± 0·090^b	0·737***	–0·666 ± 0·022^b	1·772 ± 0·017^a
Woody perennial	232	33·4 ± 11·8	0·397***	0·766 ± 0·041^c	1·208 ± 0·224^a	0·791***	–0·731 ± 0·045^ab	1·745 ± 0·045^a
Ecological groupings
Wetland	224	20·0 ± 9·9	0·309***	0·717 ± 0·043^a	0·878 ± 0·183^a	0·785***	–0·607 ± 0·037^a	1·751 ± 0·025^a
Woodland	215	28·8 ± 12·0	0·655***	0·820 ± 0·033^b	0·621 ± 0·170^ab	0·847***	–0·848 ± 0·045^b	1·855 ± 0·033^b
Dryland	1248	22·6 ± 10·0	0·510***	0·835 ± 0·016^b	0·636 ± 0·074^a	0·681***	–0·723 ± 0·023^a	1·786 ± 0·016^a
Geophytes	59	14·3 ± 5·2	0·511***	0·903 ± 0·094^b	[0·144 ± 0·326^b]	0·433***	–0·626 ± 0·125^a	1·731 ± 0·084^a
Succulents	62	10·1 ± 6·4	0·736***	0·854 ± 0·070^b	0·621 ± 0·208^ab	0·680***	–0·712 ± 0·104^ab	1·855 ± 0·111^ab
Major taxa
Dicotyledons	1516	22·2 ± 10·5	0·609***	0·818 ± 0·013^a	0·624 ± 0·060^a	0·748***	–0·754 ± 0·020^a	1·799 ± 0·014^a
Monocotyledons	345	23·7 ± 10·0	0·423***	0·875 ± 0·037^b	0·565 ± 0·172^a	0·714***	–0·642 ± 0·034^b	1·768 ± 0·028^a

For clarity, the mean LD ± s.d. are values, but statistical tests were carried out using transformed data. Regression terms are given with 95 % confidence intervals (CI), and those with the same suffix are not statistically significantly different at P <0·05. Regression terms in brackets are not significantly different from zero. *** P < 0·001.