Table 1.

Height, morphology, and dry weights of six oak species in experiments 1, 2, and 3.

Experiment no.	Species	n	QMI^{^z}	Height (cm)	Surface area (cm²)		Root length (cm)	Dry weight (g)			Shoot to root ratio
Experiment no.	Species	n	QMI^{^z}	Height (cm)	Leaf	Root	Root length (cm)	Shoot	Root	Total	Shoot to root ratio
1	Q. rubra	10	3 to 4	50.6 b^{^y}	1190.7 ab	457.1 ab	5001.3 b	24.9 b	25.0 b	49.0 b	1.0 a
	Q. shumardii	10	3 to 4	63.1 b	1596.8 b	648.0 b	5436.2 b	22.4 b	17.6 b	40.0 b	1.3 a
	Q. velutina	10	2 to 3	29.6 a	737.8 a	328.6 a	3014.3 a	8.2 a	4.8 a	13.0 a	1.7 b
2	Q. macrocarpa	25	2	31.0 b	634.9 c	168.2 c	1265.2 b	7.3 b	7.7 b	15.0 c	1.1 a
	Q. palustris	25	2	21.1 a	203.2 a	83.2 a	661.4 a	2.4 a	2.2 a	4.6 a	1.1 a
	Q. prinus	25	2	19.3 a	463.1 b	102.7 b	692.4 a	3.8 a	2.7 a	6.5 b	1.4 b
3	Q. macrocarpa	20	3 to 4	43.9 a	1414.4 a	138.0 b	1271.7 b	16.5 a	31.0 b	47.5 b	0.5 a
	Q. prinus	20	3 to 4	81.9 b	1882.5 b	71.2 a	169.4 a	21.5 b	9.5 a	31.0 a	2.3 b

↵^z Quercus morphologic index are for the lag-phase (Hanson et al. 1986).
↵^y Means within an experiment and column followed by different letters are significantly different from each other using the Student-Neuman-Kels test at the ∝ = 0.05 level of significance.