No consistent effect of plant species richness on resistance to simulated climate change for above- or below-ground processes in managed grasslands

Table 4 Analysis of log-response ratios \(\left( {{ \log }\frac{\text{treatment biomass }}{\text{control biomass}}} \right)\) for treatment effects in spring 2010 and summer 2009 (see Fig. 3). See Table 2 for explanation of symbols

Models were manually simplified until all model terms were significant. Design effects were always kept in the model. SS were computed sequentially (type I). LUT and Explo refer to land-use type and exploratory region, respectively
^aSpecies richness was modelled as log(species richness) in the spring analysis. Using a linear scale yielded similar, but non-significant effects of species richness
^bEstimate for the spring effect of log(species richness): 0.792 ± 0.363; partial model R ²_adj = 0.036

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