Table 3.

Linear mixed‐effects model: table of F‐ and p‐values on the effects of plant diversity (monoculture and two‐ and three‐species mixtures) on shoot biomass, root biomass, soil microbial biomass, soil microbial richness, Shannon diversity, evenness, cellobiohydrolase activity, and phenol oxidase activity of each treatment (Control, LOW, HIGH, CARBON, NITROGEN)

	Shoot biomass			Root biomass			Soil microbial biomass			Microbial richness			Shannon diversity			Evenness			Cellobiohydrolase			Phenol oxidase
	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value	df	F‐value	p‐value
Control	2, 18	3.18	.065	2, 18	0.52	.603	2, 15.22	13.04	<.001	2, 17	2.48	.113	2, 17	2.93	.080	2, 17	2.26	.135	2, 16.67	0.41	.670	2, 15.37	3.25	.067
LOW	2, 18	1.04	.374	2, 18	0.44	.648	2, 17.26	2.25	.135	2, 17.28	2.84	.086	2, 16.64	5.36	.016	2, 17.94	1.57	.235	2, 17.93	0.50	.616	2, 18	0.51	.611
HIGH	2, 17	0.05	.948	2, 18	1.07	.365	2, 18.27	0.89	.430	2, 15.45	0.09	.914	2, 15.40	0.15	.863	2, 15.28	2.74	.096	2, 18.04	6.39	.008	2, 18	0.39	.684
CARBON	2, 18	2.29	.130	2, 16.13	0.3	.744	2, 18.26	1.27	.304										2, 17.84	0.23	.800	2, 18	3.20	.065
NITROGEN	2, 18	0.35	.712	2, 13.65	0.72	.506	2, 17.045	2.58	.105										2, 14.39	0.72	.506	2, 17.56	0.64	.048

Significant results (p < .05) are highlighted in bold, and marginally significant results (p < .10) are given in italics.