ANOVA of the effects of canopy removal and mechanical disturbance on synchrony in species abundances, temporal coefficient of variation of community respiration (VCR), and understorey community respiration.

The abundance of F. serratus was included in the analyses of synchrony (“Species synchrony”). The analysis was repeated after excluding F. serratus abundance in order to check for consistency of results (“Understorey species synchrony”). DF, SS, and MS stand for degrees of freedom, sum of squares, and mean squares, respectively. Significant P-values are in bold.1For species synchrony, terms used as denominator for F-ratio are listed in the column MSden. Error terms with highly conservative P-values (>0.25) were removed from the model. Synchrony was measured at Nordostwatt and Westwatt (n = 40). 2For VCR and understorey community respiration (n = 2 and 3, respectively), the distribution of the F-ratio was obtained after 999 Monte Carlo samples of raw data. VCR and understorey community respiration were measured at Nordostwatt.