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.