Table 2.

Median of fine root turnover (year^-1) of the six species in the three different soil depths.

	Soil depth
	0–10 cm	10–20 cm	20–30 cm
Fraxinus excelsior	0.42 aAB	0.16 aAB	0.44 aA
Acer pseudoplatanus	0.22 aA	0.21 aAB	0.44 aA
Acer platanoides	1.14 aB	1.18 aA	1.60 aB
Carpinus betulus	0.70 aAB	0.60 aAB	0.22 aA
Tilia cordata	0.50 aAB	0.17 aAB	0.36 aA
Fagus sylvatica	0.42 aAB	0.33 aB	0.70 aAB

Significant differences (pairwise comparison; Mann–Whitney U-test; p < 0.05) between the soil depths for a species are marked with different lower case letters, those for two species at a given soil depth are marked with different capital letters.