Ecological Archives E087-026-A2

Lawren Sack and Kristen Frole. 2006. Leaf structural diversity is related to hydraulic capacity in tropical rain forest trees. Ecology 87:483–491.

Appendix B (Table B1). A table showing the ANOVA results for leaf traits.

Trait

Regeneration irradiance
(df = 1)

Species
(df = 8 or as given)

Error
(df = 20 or as given)

Leaf midrib xylem anatomy

     

Midrib xylem conduit number

65240***

64329***

1489

Mean midrib xylem conduit diameter

67.5**

33.8***

4.63

Estimated axial midrib xylem hydraulic resistance

0.294***

0.140***

0.0147

       

Leaf venation architecture

     

1o vein density

0.000015

0.0280***

0.00103

2o vein density

689***

660***

3.54

   Excluding C. longifolium

0.288*

0.680*** (7)

0.0409 (18)

   Excluding C. longifolium and M. argentea

0.0155

0.546*** (6)

0.0445 (16)

3o vein density

42.9***

59.1***

0.295

   Excluding C. longifolium

0.055

14.8*** (7)

0.247 (18)

Major vein density

495***

584***

3.98

   Excluding C. longifolium

2.21

19.1*** (7)

0.513 (18)

Minor vein density

52.3***

8.42***

0.821

   Excluding C. longifolium

23.1***

4.44** (7)

0.911 (18)

Total vein density

25.1***

3.13**

0.853

Density of free vein endings

208*

311*** (7)

32.8 (18)

       

Leaf tissue anatomy

     

Adaxial cuticle thickness

151***

24.5***

1.23

Adaxial epidermis thickness

3.83

25.5*

10.3

Abaxial epidermis thickness

8.39

19.6***

3.09

Palisade mesophyll thickness

3808**

1486***

225

Spongy mesophyll thickness

47760***

17130***

596

Total mesophyll thickness

24653***

24838***

1120

Palisade / Spongy mesophyll thickness

1.68***

0.120***

0.0107

       

Leaf gross structure

     

Lamina area

11590***

11368***

393

Lamina perimeter / area

0.0360

0.127***

0.0178

Lamina perimeter2 / area

2.01

8.48**

1.53

Lamina thickness

33402***

40240***

1079

Lamina density

0.0850***

0.0276***

0.00142

Notes: Mean squares and significance of effects presented for analyses of variance (species, nested within regeneration irradiance) for individual traits.



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