Extended Data Fig. 8 | Community trait co-variation is structured by temperature and moisture. a, PCA of plot-level community-weighted traits for seven key functional traits demonstrating how communities vary in multidimensional trait space. Trait correlations are highest between SLA and leaf nitrogen, and evergreenness and woodiness. Variation in SLA, leaf nitrogen, evergreenness and woodiness (principal component (PC)1) are orthogonal to variation in height (PC2). Variation in leaf area and LDMC are explained by both PC1 and PC2. The colour of the points indicates the soil moisture status of each plot at the site-level. b, c, Plot scores along PC1, related to plant resource economy, vary with summer temperature, soil moisture and their interaction (b), whereas plot scores along PC2 vary only with soil moisture (c). The colour of the points indicates the soil moisture of each site. Because not all plots and sites had woody species (and thus proportion evergreen could not be calculated), this analysis was conducted on a subset of 1,098 (out of 1,520) plots at 98 (out of 117) different sites.