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Results
The most important issue: Data Mining; Play with your data!
Define all the possible relationships among parameters
Prepare the figures and tables in the way that be used in the manuscript
Select most relevant and significant results that can make the study a good story
The right way to present interactions
The main effects of both warming (P<0.05) and increasing precipitation (P<0.05) were statistically significant. Warming stimulated Y by % whereas precipitation reduced it by %
Warming and increased precipitation interacted to affect Y (P<0.01). Warming reduced Y by % under ambient precipitation, but increased it by % under increased precipitation. Increased precipitation enhanced Y by % without warming and suppressed it by % warming, respectively.
Discussion
Comparison of your results with others
Seek for the underlying mechanisms of the changes in the measured parameters.
Implications or extrapolations of your findings.
Define unresolved questions for future research
Discussion
Complex interactions among multiple ecological components and processes require to explain changes in one variable with all other variables with available data.
When explaining your result, do not to speculate unless you can support your argument with data in your or previous studies.
Discussion
Do not repeat results:
Wrong: There were significant effects of warming × increased precipitation interactions on cumulative root production, mortality.
Right: Significant effects of warming × increased precipitation interactions on cumulative root production, mortality observed in this study suggest

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