Leaf stock Leaf stock C/N C/N Taxa richness Taxa richness Shredder abundance Shredder abundance
Transformation log log log log
Outlier removed 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
No. models averaged 7 7 2 2 5 5 8 8
Average adj. R2 0.823 0.823 0.788 0.788 0.688 0.688 0.756 0.756
Contrast Est. P Est. P Est. P Est. P
Season Spring - Summer -0.064 0.633 -26.645 <0.001 -1.901 0.008 -0.500 0.025
Spring - Autumn 1.544 <0.001 -25.465 <0.001 -2.609 <0.001 -0.331 0.126
Flow permanence (FP) -0.244 0.027 8.071 0.002 2.038 <0.001 1.064 <0.001
Distance to source (DS) 0.069 0.342* -14.332 <0.001 0.426 0.269 -0.006 0.966*
Upstream connectivity (UC%) 0.224 0.030 0.295 0.161
Riparian response (RR) 0.100 0.105* 0.016 0.933* 0.140 0.213*
Tree diversity 0.093 0.159*
Instream C/N -0.706 0.028 0.143 0.143*
Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions Interactions
Season * DS Spring - Summer 6.487 0.059 -1.094 0.005*
Spring - Autumn 11.028 0.001 -0.607 0.131*
Season * FP Spring - Summer 0.059 0.655 -7.978 0.005 -0.281 0.553
Spring - Autumn -0.346 0.014 -5.173 0.064 0.772 0.119
Season * UC% Spring - Summer -0.059 0.668* -0.565 0.012
Spring - Autumn -0.374 0.005* 0.088 0.673
FP * DS 3.594 0.074* 0.883 0.007 0.341 0.041*
FP * UC% 0.145 0.330*
RR * FP 0.196 0.204* 0.170 0.028*
RR * DS 0.538 0.020*