Ecological Archives E089-091-A4

Rebecca E. Miller and Ian E. Woodrow. 2008. Resource availability and the abundance of an N-based defense in Australian tropical rain forests. Ecology 89:1503–1509.

Appendix D (Table D1). Mean foliar N concentration in the tree species Polyscias australiana growing at each of five sites in upland/highland and lowland tropical rain forest.

Site (substrate type) Soil nutrient n Mean N (% dwt ± 1 SE)
Lamins Hill (basalt) High 11 2.61 ± 0.25ab
Longlands Gap (basalt) High 19 2.69 ± 0.13a
Mt. Nomico (granite) Low 16 1.97 ± 0.06c
Longlands Gap (rhyolite) Low 5 2.21 ± 0.06abc
Myall Creek (metamorphic) Low 5 1.89 ± 0.12bc

   Note: Significant differences in foliar N between sites (P = 0.001; F4,40 = 6.25), determined by a one-way ANOVA and Dunnett’s post hoc test for unequal sample size, are indicated by different letters.


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