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. 2014 Dec 5;9(12):e114596. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114596

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.

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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).