Figure 2. Both microhabitat parameters that are not expected to be directly affected by climate change (a-d) or expected to directly respond to climate change (e-i) differed in their within-site variability and show variable relationships with elevation. We show within (σ2within) and among (σ2among) site percent variation explained. These variance partitioning results are from Linear Mixed Models (LMMs) of the microhabitat parameter on the y-axis and block nested within site (microhabitat parameter ~ 1 + (1|site/block). In cases of model fitting issues, we ran the LMM with only (1|site) as a random effect and thus only report among-site percent variation explained. We also fit LMMs to test the effects of quadratic elevation, transect, and their interaction on the microhabitat parameter indicated on the y-axis, with a random effect of site (microhabitat parameter ~ poly(elevation, 2) * transect + (1|site)). We show one fitted line for models for significant (alpha = 0.05) effects of elevation (line is shown for MB transect only), and two fitted lines for significant elevation*transect interaction even if elevation itself was not significant. Note that fitted lines do not include random effects. Legend for all plots is as in (a) with different colors indicating the warmer, wetter West (MB) transect or the cooler, drier East (RP) transect.