Appendices

Supplementary material for: Meier et al. (2024)

• Supplementary Fig. S1. – Correlation matrix of pairwise correlations of all functional traits.
• Supplementary Fig. S2. – Relationships between the community weighted mean of the leaf dry mass of dry and semidry grasslands to soil factors.
• Supplementary Fig. S3. – Relationships between the community weighted mean of the leaf area of dry and semidry grasslands to soil factors.
• Supplementary Fig. S4. – Relationships between the community weighted mean of the leaf carbon concentration of dry and semidry grasslands to soil factors.
• Supplementary Fig. S5. – Functional traits and their coefficient of variation of Bromus erectus within dry and semidry grasslands.
• Supplementary Table S1. – Mean frequencies and covers of the most common species and their functional traits.
• Supplementary Table S2. – MANOVA for directly testing the difference between all functional traits together as response variables and the grassland type as a predictor.
• Supplementary Table S3. – ANCOVA after model simplification for testing the effect of soil factors on functional traits between dry and semidry grasslands.