Fig 2. Performance of four floodplain meadow plant species after a 2-week flooding period.

Mean (± 95% confidence interval) logarithmic response ratio of plant height (A), leaf number (B) and biomass (C), and mean (± 95% confidence interval) specific leaf area (SLA, D) for each species-seedling age group combination: Veronica maritima L., Veronica teucrium L., Sanguisorba officinalis L., and Sanguisorba minor Scop.; flooding started 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks after germination (age2-age8), and control group with no flooding (noFl). Effects of flooding treatments on survived plants were considered significant (i.e. different from the controls) when 95% CI did not overlap with zero. Missing bars represent groups with a mortality of 100%.