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.