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. 2012 Sep 19;7(9):e45205. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045205

Table 4. Summary of linear regressions describing the relationship between carbon flux component and soil water content (SWC), leaf area index (LAI) and the relationship between ecosystem respiration (ER) and gross ecosystem productivity (GEP).

Treatment
Control Warming Nitrogen Warming×Nitrogen
NEE(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.SWC(V/V%) y-intercept 2.066 2.0044 1.594 2.7729
slope 0.2365 0.261 0.3119 0.2496
r2 0.4886 0.4659 0.4972 0.3402
MS 314.90 316.75 689.63 313.74
P <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
ER(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.SWC(V/V%) y-intercept 0.9146 0.6552 0.4292 −0.2314
slope 0.2589 0.3416 0.3001 0.3913
r2 0.5177 0.5662 0.5326 0.5317
MS 377.32 542.41 638.37 771.08
P <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
GEP(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.SWC(V/V%) y-intercept 3.0095 2.6596 2.0193 2.6494
slope 0.4954 0.6026 0.6120 0.6364
r2 0.5426 0.5815 0.5781 0.5000
MS 1381.62 1688.15 2654.78 2039.59
P <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
NEE(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.LAI y-intercept 0.5412 −0.2915 −4.2295 −1.3917
slope 4.2316 4.6648 6.3741 4.4301
r2 0.2792 0.5243 0.8201 0.7253
MS 61.19 80.9279 264.93 42.2482
P 0.0242 0.0007 <0.0001 <0.0001
ER(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.LAI y-intercept −0.4930 0.4373 −1.6812 −1.4304
slope 4.2868 3.3815 3.4772 3.7369
r2 0.5325 0.3872 0.6059 0.5844
MS 62.7906 42.5253 78.84 115.25
P 0.0006 0.0058 0.0001 0.0002
GEP(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.LAI y-intercept 0.0482 0.1458 −5.9107 −2.8220
slope 8.5184 8.0463 9.8513 8.1670
r2 0.4024 0.5054 0.8241 0.6932
MS 247.94 240.78 632.82 550.50
P 0.0047 0.0009 0.0001 <0.0001
ER(umolCO2m−2s−1) vs.GEP(umolCO2m−2s−1) y-intercept −0.5914 −0.6659 −0.4017 −1.2563
slope 0.5170 0.5503 0.4793 0.5700
r2 0.9351 0.9119 0.8852 0.9108
MS 713.26 902.39 1101.40 1383.80
P <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001