Annals of Forest Science

Table 3 Coefficient of variation in the traits studied by year, seedling planting density, and root pruning status. Values marked with the same lowercase letter are not different at p < 0.05 within columns, and values marked with the same uppercase letter are not different at p < 0.05 within rows within each experimental year. Seedling planting density per container (four or eight) is shown in row two and pruning status (C = control and P = seedlings with pruned taproots) is shown in row three

From: Functional response of Quercus robur L. to taproot pruning: a 5-year case study

	2012 (year of pruning)						2014 (3 years after pruning)						2015 (4 years after pruning)
	4		8		F	P	4		8		F	P	4		8		F	P
	C	P	C	P	F	P	C	P	C	P	F	P	C	P	C	P	F	P
SLA							28 ab	6	21 bc	18 d	1.08	0.402	15	24	25 abc	18	0.45	0.724
SSL	101 a	102 ab	80 a	100 a	0.009	0.965	71 a	30	64 a	83 a	1.14	0.376	33	47	67 a	46	0.66	0.599
SRL	66 a, B	132 a, A	66 a, B	57 ab, B	19.42	0.002	49 a	41	33 abc	39 bc	1.49	0.270	32 A	36 A	40 ab, A	13 B	4.01	0.046
LMF	26 ab	34 bc	18 bc	37 bc	0.93	0.469	46 a, AB	14 B	45 ab, AB	52 ab, A	3.63	0.049	17	28	19 abc	16	0.47	0.711
SMF	35 ab	38 bc	20 bc	32 bc	0.54	0.670	26 ab	31	19 abc	27 cd	2.89	0.084	15	21	12 bc	16	0.81	0.522
RMF	13 b	36 c	15 c	19 c	1.76	0.231	25 ab	21	25 abc	42 bc	2.65	0.100	10	15	9 c	10	1.32	0.328
fRMF	53 ab	83 abc	56 ab	41 bc	0.73	0.561	16 b	13	15 c	8 e	0.188	0.902	27	35	20 bc	27	0.28	0.839
F	5.22	5.77	12.46	16.02			4.75		4.56	48.41			2.47	0.588	6.73	2.32
p	0.004	0.003	0.004	0.002			0.001		0.004	0.001			0.056	0.766	0.001	0.091

SLA specific leaf area, SSL specific stem length, SRL specific root length, LMF leaf mass fraction, SMF stem mass fraction, RMF root mass fraction, fRMF fine root mass fraction
Significance level p <0.05 is matched as italics

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