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Means (± SE) for sweetgum branch growth traits following Years 1 and 2 of the artificial defoliation study.
Data reflect the responses of sweetgum growth over two growing seasons after artificial defoliation treatments of varying intensity and frequency. Means within a column followed by different lowercase letters (defoliation intensity) or uppercase letters (defoliation frequency) are significantly different at α ≤ 0.05 by F -statistic protected Tukey’s studentized range test.
