Table 1.

Design of the experiment with five tree species, three diversity levels (mono, monocultures; mix 3, 3-species mixtures; mix 5, 5-species mixtures) and moist and dry treatments with the number of replicates.

Thee diversity	Species combination	Replication (n)
		moist	dry
MONO
	A. pseudoplatanus	7	7
	C. betulus	7	7
	F. sylvatica	7	7
	F. excelsior	7	7
	T. cordata	7	7
MIX-3
	A.p. – C.b. – F.s.	7
	A.p. – C.b. – F.e	7	6
	A.p. – C.b. – T.c	7	6
	A.p. – F.s. – F.e.	7	6
	A.p. – F.s. – T.c.	7
	A.p. – F.e. – T.c.	7
	C.b. – F.s. – F.c.	7
	C.b. – F.s. – F.e.	7	6
	C.b. – F.e. – T.c.	7
	F.s. – F.e. – T.c.	7	6
MIX-5
	A.c. – C.b. – F.s.
	–F.e. – T.c.	8	7

In the dry 3-species mixtures, only five of the 10 possible combinations were realized. A.p., Acer pseudoplatanus; C.b., Carpinus betulus; F.e., Fraxinus excelsior; F.s., Fagus sylvatica; T.c., Tilia cordata.