Table 2 Outcome of the linear mixed effect model with SROS as response variable, “grazing” and “non-grazing” plots as fixed effects and the random effects of “time” (F1-4) and “plot ID” (A-D).

Plot_ID (Intercept)

3.01

1.73

Time (Intercept)

19.47

4.41

Residual

0.39

0.63

Number of obs: 32, groups: Plot, 4; Time, 4

Fixed effects

Estimate

Std. Error

t value

Pr(>|t|)

(Intercept)

19.28

2.38

8.12

1.37 × 10^− 3 **

Status Non-grazing

1.23

0.22

5.57

9.82 × 10^− 6 ***

Correlation of Fixed Effects

(Intr)

Status Non-grazing

-0.05