Climate effects were more pronounced for reproductive litterfall flux alone, with stronger unimodal effects of temperature and precipitation than observed for RA, while leaf litterfall flux showed only a positive linear relationship with mean annual temperature and a weakly significant concave down relationship with mean annual precipitation (Figure 3b,c , Table 1 ). 3.2.
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Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally.
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Indicators of soil fertility also significantly affect RA, while forest age effects were comparable, and arguably more robust, than climate effects and showed an increasing trend with stand age.