Effects of elevated CO2 concentration and increased temperature on leaf quality responses of rare and endangered plants

Table 2 Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) for effects of elevated CO₂ + Temperature, species and term of CO₂ exposure and their interactions on photosynthesis parameters of seven rare and endangered plant species in Korea

Factor	Nitrogen		Carbon		C:N ratio		Chlorophyll
Factor	F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
CO₂ + T (C)	165.241	< 0.000	170.497	< 0.000	518.301	< 0.000	12.571	< 0.001
Term (T)	36.434	< 0.000	305.477	< 0.000	123.077	< 0.000	25.461	< 0.000
Species (S)	338.648	< 0.003	408.496	< 0.000	409.411	< 0.000	492.478	< 0.000
C x T	9.795	< 0.000	71.039	< 0.000	55.399	< 0.000	61.905	< 0.000
C x S	29.841	< 0.000	4.035	< 0.002	78.397	< 0.000	130.498	< 0.000
T x S	2.482	< 0.034	31.495	< 0.000	20.267	< 0.000	10.115	< 0.000
C x T x S	7.531	< 0.000	5.061	< 0.000	11.934	< 0.000	2.224	< 0.046

The bold data in the table means significantly different among the environmental treatment and interaction within each species (p < 0.05)

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