Table 5.

Pearson correlation between bark, stem and leaf traits among 31 tree species from Brazilian Cerrado.

	RBTtotal	RBTouter	RBTinner	RBT30	D bark	SD	D wood	BWC	WWC	LWC	%WinB	Ψstem-md	K stem	BGR
Bark traits
RBTouter	0.50**
RBTinner	0.90**	0.10ns
RBT30	0.44**	0.25ns	0.38*
D bark	-0.56**	-0.18ns	-0.54**	-0.43**
Wood traits
SD	0.67**	0.42*	0.55**	0.27ns	-0.68**
D wood	-0.38*	0.10ns	-0.45*	-0.35*	0.71**	-0.45**
Water relations
BWC	0.19ns	-0.28ns	0.35*	0.22ns	-0.79**	0.35*	-0.66**
WWC	0.37*	-0.03ns	0.43*	0.39*	-0.70**	0.44**	-0.94**	0.64**
LWC	0.10ns	-0.11ns	0.13ns	0.16ns	-0.65**	0.15ns	-0.69**	0.67**	0.67**
%WinB	0.64**	0.25ns	0.63**	0.08ns	-0.37*	0.54**	-0.02ns	0.15ns	-0.02ns	-0.13ns
Ψstem-md	0.49**	0.18ns	0.49**	0.39*	-0.54**	0.48**	-0.52**	0.42*	0.56**	0.28ns	0.23ns
K stem	0.05ns	-0.29ns	0.19ns	0.18ns	-0.53**	0.14ns	-0.71**	0.64**	0.69**	0.50**	0.10ns	-0.44**
Growth
BGR	0.20ns	0.13ns	0.16ns	0.14ns	-0.39*	0.44**	-0.25ns	0.38*	0.25ns	0.11ns	0.26ns	-0.23ns	0.03ns
A mass	0.37*	0.22ns	0.35*	0.36*	-0.45**	0.50**	-0.50**	0.23ns	0.55**	0.04ns	0.09ns	-0.41*	0.58**	0.12ns

The table shows the correlation coefficients and their significance: ns, nonsignificant; *, P ≤ 0.05; **, P ≤ 0.01. Trait abbreviation as in Tables 2 and 3 .