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Phosphorus content did not display any particular pattern. As seen in Fig.?1 for a subset of traits, all �C significant �C relationships were linear except for leaf�Cstem N and leaf�Croot N (slightly exponential). Slopes of linear regressions were, however, not always close to 1, revealing different structural and chemical allocations across organs. Thus, DMC displayed a narrower range of variation and was generally lower in roots than in leaves and stems. Lignin content of roots and stems was similar but higher than in leaves. Leaf pH reached lower values in leaves than in stems and roots. Nitrogen content was highest in leaves, intermediate in roots and lowest in stems. Visual inspection showed no phylogenetic or plant type (Figs?S1 and S2, respectively) group clustering away from the general regression lines, whichever trait or organ relationship was considered. In other words, although a few outliers were observed, no plant type or clade seemed http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Bortezomib.html to consistently offset either slope or intercept of organ trait relationships. Standardized major axis tests on environments (Fig.?1) demonstrated also that terrestrial, riparian and aquatic groups of species did not display any significant difference in slope or intercept for any trait. All clades, plant types and environments fitted thus consistently in the emerging patterns of trait covariation among organs. The first PCA axis based on 19 traits from all vegetative plant parts accounted for 43% of overall variation, as against only 12% for axis 2 (Fig.?2). All plant traits, except P content of the http://www.selleck.cn/products/blu9931.html different plant parts, contributed substantially to the first axis. With increasing scores on the first PCA axis, variables representative of the resource acquisitive strategy, i.e. SLA, N content and pH, decreased while variables representative of plant nutrient conservation strategy, i.e. DMC, lignin content and C:N, increased. Consistent with this plant strategy axis, all terrestrial species �C except Cornus suecica, Deschampsia flexuosa and Equisetum sylvaticum�C were clustered http://www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk1120212-jtp-74057.html on the nutrient-conservative side of the spectrum; all aquatic species were grouped at the far end of the acquisitive side of the spectrum; and riparian species were spread in-between these two extremes (Fig.?2A). Pairwise comparison of the first-axis species scores for the plant environment variable confirmed this (P?
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