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Table 5.

Mean (± s.d.) of root traits among the four sites.

Trait	Cool and wet (CW)	Hot and wet (HW)	Cool and dry (CD)	Hot and dry (HD)
D	1.12 (0.13)^a	1.04 (0.14)^a	1.47 (0.30)^b	1.05 (0.31)^a
SRL	4.01 (2.06)^a	2.98 (1.29)^a	1.05 (0.80)^b	3.56 (2.62)^a
SRA	329.1 (156.2)^ab	289.0 (109.7)^ab	131.8 (63.5)^a	367.5 (379.7)^b
SRTD	607.4 (426.0)^ab	378.5 (195.3)^ab	160.6 (121.3)^a	458.9 (404.0)^b
RLD	1.74 (0.82)^a	2.22 (1.16)^a	0.30 (0.22)^b	1.90 (1.10)^a
N_root	1.96 (0.44)^a	1.94 (0.33)^a	1.34 (0.34)^b	1.59 (0.31)^b
CN_root	24.61 (4.52)^a	21.36 (3.17)^a	37.23 (9.85)^b	31.02 (6.83)^b
PCA 1 score	-0.31 (0.39)^a	0.26 (0.29)^a	0.66 (0.38)^b	-0.11 (0.63)^a
PCA 2 score	0.05 (0.61)^a	-0.45 (0.45)^b	0.30 (0.26)^a	0.11 (0.68)^a

Values followed by the same letter within a row are significantly different based on Tukey’s HSD test (n = 16).