Table 1. Summary of the mixed-effects model testing the effects of species richness, functional group number and functional group identity on xylem water enrichment in 18O and 2H (i.e., difference between samples taken after the labeling and the background samples).
April | June | September | ||||||||||
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δ18O | δ2H | δ18O | δ2H | δ18O | δ2H | |||||||
χ2 ratio | P | χ2 ratio | P | χ2 ratio | P | χ2 ratio | P | χ2 ratio | P | χ2 ratio | P | |
Species richness (SR, log-linear) | 0.71 | 0.399 | 0.01 | 0.931 | 0.18 | 0.669 | 1.82 | 0.177 | 3.01 | 0.083 | 2.13 | 0.145 |
Functional group richness (FR, linear) | 0.05 | 0.825 | 1.45 | 0.228 | 0.26 | 0.61 | 0.79 | 0.373 | 1.1 | 0.294 | 0.14 | 0.709 |
Functional group identity (FG) | 12.94 | 0.005 | 3.79 | 0.285 | 6.11 | 0.106 | 2.13 | 0.546 | 2.62 | 0.453 | 5.82 | 0.121 |
SR x FG | 0.19 | 0.801 | 1.6 | 0.66 | 2.37 | 0.499 | 1.73 | 0.63 | 0.85 | 0.837 | 2.58 | 0.461 |
Analyses were carried out for each campaign separately.