Percentage of total plant dry weight in leaves, roots and stems, the leaf area-to-fine root dry weight sand leaf area ratios of seedlings from three Quercus species.
| Species | Total plant dry weight (%) | Leaf area to fine root dry weight (cm2 g−1) | Leaf area ratio (cm2 g) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| leaves | stems | Root typez | |||||
| fine | coarse | total | |||||
| Q. cerris | 20.6Ay | 22.5A | 15.6C | 41.3B | 56.9B | 213.2A | 33.3B |
| Q. pubescens | 51.5B | 38.6B | 3.6B | 6.3A | 9.9A | 188.2A | 6.8A |
| Q. robur | 49.5B | 44.7C | 2.4A | 8.4A | 5.8A | 309.8B | 7.6A |
Means within a column followed by different letters are significantly different from each other at the α = 0.05 level using the Student-Neuman-Kuels test. Each value is the mean of 72 plants.
↵zFine roots were < 2 mm in diameter; coarse roots were ≥ 2 mm diameter.