Table 5.

Pearson correlation coefficients for linear relationships between 27 functional trait variables at the tree level (n = 100).

	DBH	Height	AGB	BAI	ABI	P12	P50	P88	$K_{\text{S}}^{\text{emp}}$	$K_{\text{S}}^{\text{theo}}$	$K_{\text{L}}^{\text{emp}}$	$K_{\text{L}}^{\text{theo}}$	BA	Agrowth	Alumen : Axylem	VD	D	Dh	AS : AL	Aleaf	SLA	C:N	δ13C	Camass	Kmass	Mgmass
Height	0.56
AGB	0.98	0.66
BAI	0.73	0.31	0.74
ABI	0.98	0.66	1.00	0.74
P12	ns	ns	ns	−0.30	ns
P50	ns	ns	ns	−0.28	ns	0.82
P88	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.37	0.79
$K_{\text{S}}^{\text{emp}}$	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
$K_{\text{S}}^{\text{theo}}$	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.44
$K_{\text{L}}^{\text{emp}}$	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.28	0.57	0.39
$K_{\text{L}}^{\text{theo}}$	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.37	0.73	0.77
BA	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
Agrowth	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.24	0.21	0.38	0.34	ns
Alumen : Axylem	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.36	0.94	0.30	ns	ns	ns
VD	ns	0.36	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	−0.51	0.49
D	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.47	0.92	0.44	0.72	ns	0.39	0.79	ns
Dh	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.50	0.88	0.35	0.63	ns	0.34	0.71	ns	0.92
AS : AL	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.82	0.63	−0.30	ns	ns	ns	0.26	ns
Aleaf	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.74	ns	0.36	ns	ns	ns	ns	−0.29
SLA	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.27	ns	ns	ns	ns	−0.31	−0.32	0.34	−0.23	ns	ns	ns	ns	−0.46	ns
C:N	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.22	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
δ13C	0.26	0.26	0.28	0.29	0.28	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	−0.34	−0.32
Camass	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
Kmass	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.41	0.41	ns	ns
Mgmass	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.37	ns	ns	ns	ns
Pmass	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	0.40	ns	ns	0.51	ns

Significance levels: ns: non−significant; bold italic letters: P < 0.05; bold letters: P < 0.01; bold underlined letters: P < 0.001. See Table 1 for definition of abbreviations.