Ecological Archives E093-225-A1

Stefanie von Felten, Pascal A. Niklaus, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Andrew Hector, Nina Buchmann. 2012. Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?. Ecology 93:2386–2396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1439.1

Appendix A. Mean 15N enrichment of aboveground biomass by harvest and treatment and natural background 15N.

TABLE A1. Mean 15N enrichment of aboveground biomass by harvest and treatment (mean δ15N in ‰±SE, n = 96 populations for each mean). Natural background (BG) δ15N is given as well (n = 8 for harvests 1 and 2, and n = 7 at harvest 3).


Harvest

15N treatment

BG


Shallow

Deep

(1) August 2005

138.7 ± 1.9

64.7 ± 2.2

6.0 ± 0.4

(2) September 2005

115.2 ± 3.4

60.9 ± 2.0

4.3 ± 0.5

(3) May 2006

64.3 ± 1.3

49.3 ± 1.2

2.9 ± 0.3



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