Table 2.

Correlation matrix among growth analysis components and geographical factors. The upper half of the matrix contains Pearson correlation coefficients and P-values, and lower half the Spearman rank correlations

	Latitude	Dryness	K*	RGR	LAR	SLA	LWR
	Latitude		0·5669	−0·0074	0·8243	0·6051	0·8551	−0·0426
		0·1428	0·9862	0·0118	0·1120	0·0068	0·9202
Dryness	0·0714		−0·1387	0·1906	0·1031	0·4528	−0·5750
	0·8665		0·7433	0·6511	0·8080	0·2599	0·1359
K	0·2619	−0·3333		0·1902	0·1007	−0·1696	0·2815
	0·5309	0·4198		0·6520	0·8124	0·6881	0·4995
RGR	0·8333	−0·2619	0·3333		0·8210	0·8145	0·2648
	0·0102	0·5309	0·4198		0·0125	0·0138	0·5262
LAR	0·5238	−0·4524	0·3571	0·8333		0·6771	0·6733
	0·1827	0·2604	0·3851	0·0102		0·0651	0·0672
SLA	0·8333	0·2857	−0·0238	0·7619	0·4524		−0·0853
	0·0102	0·4927	0·9554	0·0280	0·2604		0·8409
LWR	0·1667	−0·8571	0·4524	0·3333	0·5476	−0·2381
	0·6932	0·0065	0·2604	0·4198	0·1600	0·5702

Bold numbers indicate significant correlation.

^*Continentality Index.