Climate-corrected trait values were used to determine the effect of
local soil at each study climate. Explanatory variables at the
individual species level included both species and climate, and
predictive trait models were characterized by high amounts of
interactions, revealing no clear trends across specific climate or
species (Fig. 5 ). Species-specific biomass, individual biomass,
maximum height, survival, leaf area, and leaf dry weight were all
explained by models containing species, climate, and an interaction
between species and climate (Table 2 ). Only reproduction was
explained by models not including an interaction term. Surprisingly,
community level climate corrected analysis revealed no differences in
any of the measured physiological variables across any climate (all p
> 0.05), indicating that communities responded consistently
as a whole regardless of site.