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. 2012 May 16;7(5):e36992. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036992

Table 3. Summary of mixed effects models for resilience and proportional resilience of aboveground biomass of the first cut in spring 2009 to test for effects of diversity (numbers of initially sown species and functional group richness), management (separated into mowing and fertilizer amounts) and drought treatments.

Resilience Spring 2009 proportional Resilience 2009
df AIC L ratio p AIC L ratio p
Nullmodel 6 3898,242 1024,902
Block 9 3903,177 1,065 0.7855 1026,706 4,196 0.2410
Species richness (log-scale) = SR 10 3903,771 1,406 0.2357 1026,624 2,081 0.1491
Number of functional groups = FG 11 3905,674 0,097 0.7557 1028,398 0,226 0.6345
Mowing = M 12 3905,225 2,449 0.1176 1029,770 0,628 0.4280
M×SR 13 3907,219 0,006 0.9395 1030,613 1,157 0.2821
M×FG 14 3909,208 0,011 0.9161 1032,446 0,167 0.6826
Fertilizer amount = F 15 3907,540 3,668 0.0555 1032,955 1,491 0.2221
F×SR 16 3904,600 4,939 0.0263 * 1033,658 1,297 0.2548
F×FG 17 3905,130 1,470 0.2253 1033,873 1,784 0.1816

Models were fitted by stepwise inclusion of variables and likelihood ratio tests (L ratio) were applied to assess statistical significance of variables (p-values). Significance is given with * = p<0.05, ** = p<0.01, *** = p<0.001; df = degrees of freedom.