Cumulative Basal Area

This code chunk produces the first figure for our manuscript results.

Table 1

Here we can make a table using the kable package in R to display site characteristics. These are piped directly from stand inventory data, processed in RMarkdown, and displayed.

Site Trees (/ha) BA (m2/ha)
GCREW 637.5 ± 57.3 44.6 ± 4
Canoe Shed 529.2 ± 93.8 40.4 ± 6
North Branch 806.9 ± 180.7 34.5 ± 7.8

Flux Timeseries

Power calculation

Use the R’s power.t.test() function to calculate sampling requirements based on the standard deviation of Rs, the desired power of the test, and the allowable delta (difference from the true mean value):

delta 0.25 0.5
0.50 46 ± 21 105 ± 50
0.75 21 ± 9 48 ± 22
1.00 13 ± 5 27 ± 12

Sensitivity Test

BA significance with distance

## # A tibble: 14 x 6
##    Distance numDF denDF `F-value` `p-value` term 
##       <int> <int> <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl> <chr>
##  1        2     1   370      5.55  1.90e- 2 BA_m2
##  2        3     1   584     32.2   2.24e- 8 BA_m2
##  3        4     1   702     23.8   1.30e- 6 BA_m2
##  4        5     1   747     55.0   3.27e-13 BA_m2
##  5        6     1   747     57.9   8.19e-14 BA_m2
##  6        7     1   747     39.7   5.13e-10 BA_m2
##  7        8     1   747     38.6   8.72e-10 BA_m2
##  8        9     1   747     56.5   1.60e-13 BA_m2
##  9       10     1   747     39.2   6.35e-10 BA_m2
## 10       11     1   748     31.8   2.46e- 8 BA_m2
## 11       12     1   748     28.7   1.14e- 7 BA_m2
## 12       13     1   749     29.5   7.71e- 8 BA_m2
## 13       14     1   747     30.7   4.12e- 8 BA_m2
## 14       15     1   747      8.03  4.74e- 3 BA_m2

Model Results

Hypothesis I - BA strong effect within 5 meters

##   Response   family     link method  Marginal Conditional
## 1     Flux gaussian identity   none 0.7193038   0.7193038

## Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood
##  Data: dat 
##        AIC      BIC    logLik
##   662.7306 709.0243 -321.3653
## 
## Random effects:
##  Formula: ~1 | Site
##          (Intercept)  Residual
## StdDev: 1.746841e-05 0.3699403
## 
## Fixed effects: log(Flux) ~ T5 * BA_m2 + T20 * BA_m2 + SMoisture + I(SMoisture^2) 
##                    Value Std.Error  DF   t-value p-value
## (Intercept)    -0.646690 0.1174650 747 -5.505386  0.0000
## T5              0.009611 0.0076290 747  1.259764  0.2081
## BA_m2          -0.046179 0.1634607 747 -0.282507  0.7776
## T20             0.084566 0.0091218 747  9.270764  0.0000
## SMoisture       3.526625 0.5576844 747  6.323693  0.0000
## I(SMoisture^2) -5.781701 0.8874114 747 -6.515244  0.0000
## T5:BA_m2        0.118048 0.0258358 747  4.569180  0.0000
## BA_m2:T20      -0.106056 0.0285469 747 -3.715151  0.0002
##  Correlation: 
##                (Intr) T5     BA_m2  T20    SMostr I(SM^2 T5:BA_
## T5             -0.051                                          
## BA_m2          -0.438  0.183                                   
## T20            -0.264 -0.894  0.139                            
## SMoisture      -0.751 -0.035  0.040  0.094                     
## I(SMoisture^2)  0.631  0.017 -0.046 -0.041 -0.968              
## T5:BA_m2        0.032 -0.674 -0.291  0.597  0.038 -0.023       
## BA_m2:T20       0.119  0.641 -0.034 -0.684 -0.051  0.034 -0.940
## 
## Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
##         Min          Q1         Med          Q3         Max 
## -5.58765525 -0.50167257 -0.03542634  0.57066707  3.52778408 
## 
## Number of Observations: 757
## Number of Groups: 3 
##                numDF denDF   F-value p-value
## (Intercept)        1   747 10049.073  <.0001
## T5                 1   747  1693.594  <.0001
## BA_m2              1   747    55.003  <.0001
## T20                1   747   102.614  <.0001
## SMoisture          1   747     0.016  0.8994
## I(SMoisture^2)     1   747    41.869  <.0001
## T5:BA_m2           1   747     9.932  0.0017
## BA_m2:T20          1   747    13.802  0.0002

Hypothesis II - growing vs. dormant season

## [1] "Growing Season"
##   Response   family     link method  Marginal Conditional
## 1     Flux gaussian identity   none 0.6451276   0.6480189

## Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood
##  Data: dat 
##        AIC      BIC    logLik
##   472.0213 517.2128 -226.0107
## 
## Random effects:
##  Formula: ~1 | Site
##         (Intercept)  Residual
## StdDev:  0.03053796 0.3369422
## 
## Fixed effects: log(Flux) ~ T5 * BA_m2 + T20 * BA_m2 + SMoisture + I(SMoisture^2) 
##                    Value Std.Error  DF   t-value p-value
## (Intercept)    -0.206962 0.1221116 668 -1.694859  0.0906
## T5             -0.005497 0.0072441 668 -0.758778  0.4483
## BA_m2          -0.557802 0.1855757 668 -3.005791  0.0027
## T20             0.082368 0.0083722 668  9.838291  0.0000
## SMoisture       2.971274 0.5427234 668  5.474749  0.0000
## I(SMoisture^2) -4.976874 0.8835183 668 -5.633018  0.0000
## T5:BA_m2        0.131897 0.0266711 668  4.945291  0.0000
## BA_m2:T20      -0.095487 0.0277067 668 -3.446353  0.0006
##  Correlation: 
##                (Intr) T5     BA_m2  T20    SMostr I(SM^2 T5:BA_
## T5             -0.149                                          
## BA_m2          -0.428  0.280                                   
## T20            -0.246 -0.857  0.078                            
## SMoisture      -0.702 -0.009  0.006  0.085                     
## I(SMoisture^2)  0.580 -0.007 -0.010 -0.028 -0.966              
## T5:BA_m2        0.019 -0.638 -0.450  0.565  0.079 -0.055       
## BA_m2:T20       0.144  0.601  0.115 -0.672 -0.085  0.057 -0.933
## 
## Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
##         Min          Q1         Med          Q3         Max 
## -6.16996733 -0.59345503 -0.03336197  0.56476986  3.58281300 
## 
## Number of Observations: 678
## Number of Groups: 3 
##                numDF denDF  F-value p-value
## (Intercept)        1   668 4364.825  <.0001
## T5                 1   668  969.230  <.0001
## BA_m2              1   668   45.839  <.0001
## T20                1   668  142.256  <.0001
## SMoisture          1   668    0.024  0.8759
## I(SMoisture^2)     1   668   29.454  <.0001
## T5:BA_m2           1   668   23.106  <.0001
## BA_m2:T20          1   668   11.877  0.0006

## [1] "Dormant Season"
##   Response   family     link method  Marginal Conditional
## 1     Flux gaussian identity   none 0.4846261   0.4846261

## Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood
##  Data: dat 
##        AIC      BIC    logLik
##   119.7978 134.0145 -53.89892
## 
## Random effects:
##  Formula: ~1 | Site
##          (Intercept)  Residual
## StdDev: 1.154782e-05 0.4787036
## 
## Fixed effects: log(Flux) ~ BA_m2 + T20 + SMoisture 
##                  Value Std.Error DF   t-value p-value
## (Intercept) -0.0327768 0.3978941 73 -0.082376  0.9346
## BA_m2        0.6791317 0.2445661 73  2.776885  0.0070
## T20          0.1221942 0.0191058 73  6.395667  0.0000
## SMoisture   -1.7852317 0.8435204 73 -2.116406  0.0377
##  Correlation: 
##           (Intr) BA_m2  T20   
## BA_m2      0.019              
## T20       -0.581 -0.056       
## SMoisture -0.930 -0.215  0.333
## 
## Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
##        Min         Q1        Med         Q3        Max 
## -2.0835973 -0.6571794  0.0452072  0.6846289  2.1639141 
## 
## Number of Observations: 79
## Number of Groups: 3 
##             numDF denDF  F-value p-value
## (Intercept)     1    73 14.05957  0.0004
## BA_m2           1    73  5.04730  0.0277
## T20             1    73 56.67435  <.0001
## SMoisture       1    73  4.47917  0.0377

Hypothesis III - moisture-limited times

## [1] "Low Moisture"
##   Response   family     link method  Marginal Conditional
## 1     Flux gaussian identity   none 0.4308833   0.4520464

## Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood
##  Data: dat 
##        AIC      BIC   logLik
##   3.747445 20.76316 5.126278
## 
## Random effects:
##  Formula: ~1 | Site
##         (Intercept)  Residual
## StdDev:  0.04301772 0.2250289
## 
## Fixed effects: log(Flux) ~ T5 + BA_m2 + SMoisture + T5:BA_m2 
##                  Value Std.Error DF   t-value p-value
## (Intercept)  0.6998130 0.7691577 77  0.909843  0.3657
## T5           0.0286009 0.0329959 77  0.866802  0.3887
## BA_m2       -3.0816359 1.9095221 77 -1.613826  0.1107
## SMoisture    2.4404559 0.6447975 77  3.784841  0.0003
## T5:BA_m2     0.1561678 0.0834958 77  1.870368  0.0652
##  Correlation: 
##           (Intr) T5     BA_m2  SMostr
## T5        -0.994                     
## BA_m2     -0.721  0.749              
## SMoisture -0.333  0.244 -0.090       
## T5:BA_m2   0.728 -0.758 -0.999  0.084
## 
## Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
##         Min          Q1         Med          Q3         Max 
## -2.13075842 -0.61704463 -0.03618069  0.68048233  2.74295161 
## 
## Number of Observations: 84
## Number of Groups: 3 
##             numDF denDF   F-value p-value
## (Intercept)     1    77 2159.9880  <.0001
## T5              1    77    9.8824  0.0024
## BA_m2           1    77   28.7686  <.0001
## SMoisture       1    77   13.2585  0.0005
## T5:BA_m2        1    77    3.4983  0.0652

## [1] "High Moisture"
##   Response   family     link method Marginal Conditional
## 1     Flux gaussian identity   none 0.694165    0.694165

## Linear mixed-effects model fit by maximum likelihood
##  Data: dat 
##       AIC      BIC    logLik
##   417.441 444.8733 -201.7205
## 
## Random effects:
##  Formula: ~1 | Site
##          (Intercept)  Residual
## StdDev: 7.686839e-06 0.4161627
## 
## Fixed effects: log(Flux) ~ T5 + BA_m2 + T20 + I(SMoisture^2) 
##                     Value Std.Error  DF   t-value p-value
## (Intercept)     0.1502698 0.1235411 365  1.216354  0.2246
## T5              0.0574478 0.0102244 365  5.618674  0.0000
## BA_m2           0.3719253 0.0930155 365  3.998532  0.0001
## T20             0.0412225 0.0122494 365  3.365268  0.0008
## I(SMoisture^2) -2.7272007 0.5762887 365 -4.732351  0.0000
##  Correlation: 
##                (Intr) T5     BA_m2  T20   
## T5             -0.023                     
## BA_m2          -0.171  0.062              
## T20            -0.103 -0.949 -0.067       
## I(SMoisture^2) -0.865 -0.039 -0.087  0.038
## 
## Standardized Within-Group Residuals:
##         Min          Q1         Med          Q3         Max 
## -4.92609265 -0.42826002  0.03806442  0.57796519  3.11462179 
## 
## Number of Observations: 372
## Number of Groups: 3 
##                numDF denDF   F-value p-value
## (Intercept)        1   365 2746.8139  <.0001
## T5                 1   365  776.9549  <.0001
## BA_m2              1   365   14.7118   1e-04
## T20                1   365   12.5768   4e-04
## I(SMoisture^2)     1   365   22.3952  <.0001