Table 1.

Proportional variance of RGR of all variables at all observation intervals (1–4 = vegetation period 2012; 4–5 = winter 2012/2013; and 5–7 = vegetation period 2013) and aboveground biomass, LDMC and SLA at the final harvest in September 2013), exclusively explained by plot, scenario and species, jointly by two of these factors or all of them as well as residual variance.

Response variable	Exclusively explained by			Jointly explained by
	Plot	Scenario	Species	Plot & Scenario	Scenario & Species	Plot & Species	Species, Plot & Scenario	Residual Variance
RGR height 1–4	0.127	0	0.376	0	0.05	0	0.002	0.452
RGR p. proj. area 1–4	0.121	0	0.203	0	0	0.006	0	0.67
RGR leaf length 1–4	0.127	0.003	0.206	0	0.004	0.002	0.002	0.658
RGR leaf number 1–4	0.043	0.002	0.202	0	0.009	0.014	0	0.731
RGR height 4–5	0.356	0.001	0.146	0.001	0.033	0	0	0.478
RGR p. proj. area 4–5	0.204	0	0.134	0	0.049	0.012	0	0.611
RGR leaf length 4–5	0.275	0	0.106	0	0.025	0.037	0	0.565
RGR leaf number 4–5	0.092	0	0.202	0.001	0.019	0.053	0	0.642
RGR height 5–7	0.391	0.002	0.16	0.004	0.016	0.015	0	0.422
RGR p. proj. area 5–7	0.188	0	0.159	0.001	0.002	0	0	0.657
RGR leaf length 5–7	0.312	0	0.097	0	0.002	0.051	0.002	0.537
RGR leaf number 5–7	0.083	0	0.193	0	0.007	0.012	0	0.71
Biomass	0.121	0	0.222	0.001	0.001	0.061	0.001	0.594
LDMC	0.134	0.002	0.299	0	0.014	0.043	0.017	0.492
SLA	0.191	0	0.224	0	0.024	0.015	0.026	0.522

All components add up to 1. p. proj. area = plant projection area.