Table 1. Linear mixed effects model results of eucalypt productivity (total, aboveground and belowground; TB, AGB, and BGB, respectively) and biomass allocation (root to shoot ratio; R∶S) across CO2, soil N, species pair type (monoculture vs. mixture with the non-native E. nitens) treatments and native species subgenus (N = 190).
Variable | |||||||||
δTB | AGB | BGB | R∶S | ||||||
Treatment | Df | Chisq | p | Chisq | p | Chisq | p | Chisq | p |
S | 1 | 2.63 | 0.105 | 2.458 | 0.117 | 3.42 | 0.064 | 3.78 | 0.052 |
M | 1 | 19.995 | 1*10−5 | 19.428 | 1*10−5 | 17.966 | 2*10−5 | 2.851 | 0.091 |
C | 1 | 2.191 | 0.139 | 1.78 | 0.182 | 3.518 | 0.061 | 1.789 | 0.181 |
N | 1 | 14.749 | 1.2*10−4 | 15.782 | 7*10−5 | 7.952 | 0.005 | 0.141 | 0.707 |
S*M | 1 | 1.377 | 0.241 | 1.102 | 0.294 | 1.686 | 0.194 | 0.084 | 0.773 |
S*C | 1 | 0.205 | 0.65 | 0.151 | 0.698 | 0.494 | 0.482 | 0.358 | 0.55 |
M*C | 1 | 5.207 | 0.022 | 5.722 | 0.017 | 3.375 | 0.066 | 0.616 | 0.433 |
S*N | 1 | 9.377 | 0.002 | 10.188 | 0.001 | 5.427 | 0.02 | 0.071 | 0.79 |
M*N | 1 | 2.4*10−4 | 0.988 | 0.002 | 0.965 | 9*10−5 | 0.992 | 0.013 | 0.908 |
C*N | 1 | 5.513 | 0.019 | 5.234 | 0.022 | 4.803 | 0.028 | 0.915 | 0.339 |
S*M*C | 1 | 0.781 | 0.377 | 0.813 | 0.367 | 0.533 | 0.465 | 0.125 | 0.724 |
S*M*N | 1 | 0.075 | 0.785 | 0.115 | 0.734 | 0.006 | 0.939 | 0.005 | 0.945 |
S*C*N | 1 | 0.284 | 0.594 | 0.384 | 0.536 | 0.015 | 0.904 | 0.878 | 0.349 |
M*C*N | 1 | 0.719 | 0.396 | 0.869 | 0.351 | 0.169 | 0.681 | 0.296 | 0.587 |
S*M*C*N | 1 | 4.215 | 0.04 | 4.131 | 0.042 | 3.364 | 0.067 | 0.785 | 0.376 |
In a greenhouse experiment, 28 native Tasmanian eucalypt species within two subgenera (S), Symphyomyrtus and Eucalyptus, were treated with factorial combinations of ambient or elevated CO2 (C; 420 or 700 ppm, respectively) and low or high soil N (N; 3 or 30 kg/ha/mo), and paired with a conspecific or a non-native (E. nitens) individual (M). In these models, whole-pot biomass measurements and ratios of root to shoot biomass were averaged for each native species in each treatment combination, cube root transformed, and blocked by species. P values are shown in bold and are significant at α≤0.05.
TB, total biomass; AGB, aboveground biomass; BGB, belowground biomass; R∶S, root to shoot ratio; M, species pair type (native species monoculture vs. mixture with E. nitens); C, CO2 treatment (420 or 700 ppm); N, nitrogen treatment (3 or 30 kg ha−1 mo−1).