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. 2018 Nov 20;1:196. doi: 10.1038/s42003-018-0201-9

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Fig. 4 — Comparison of seedling growth responses under heterospecific saplings in mesocosms associated with matching versus mismatching mycorrhizal types. Growth response G_x(y) was calculated as the average of total seedling biomass (aboveground and belowground combined) of species measured in quadruplicate per sapling species per mesocosm. Based on the fitted linear mixed-effects model, linear contrasts were made between the ln-transformed total biomass G_x(y) of individual seedling species under heterospecific saplings of matching versus mismatching mycorrhizal types. Due to the slight modification of experimental design, the arbuscular mycorrhizal species Celtis sinensis occurred only as a seedling species not as a sapling species, so it was excluded from statistical analysis. The lines in each boxplot represent the minimum (whisker), lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and maximum (whisker)