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Marcelo A. Aizen. 2003. Influences of animal pollination and seed dispersal on winter flowering in a temperate mistletoe. Ecology 84:2613–2627.

Appendix D. ANOVAs testing the effects of (A) month of flower opening on the proportion of fruits that were removed by animals and (B) bagging treatment (i.e., exposed vs. bagged fruits) and month of flower opening on fruit retention time. See Fig. 8 in text for data summary.

Source

Llao-Llao

Península

df

SS

F

P

df

SS

F

P

(A) Proportion of fruits removed

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Month

9

6.001

14.84

<0.0001

9

4.203

6.60

<0.0001

   Plant

19

1.589

1.86

0.023

14

3.839

3.88

<0.0001

   Error

122

5.479

 

 

97

6.860

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Month

8

6.097

13.71

<0.0001

8

3.805

8.73

<0.0001

   Plant

22

4.432

3.62

<0.0001

17

7.345

7.93

<0.0001

   Error

143

7.951

 

 

112

6.105

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(B) Fruit retention time (wk)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Treatment

1

1055.25

218.28

<0.0001

1

275.01

34.60

<0.0001

   Month

9

202.53

4.65

<0.0001

9

153.11

2.14

0.029

   Month × treatment

9

175.78

4.04

<0.0001

9

127.76

1.76

0.075

   Plant

19

155.86

1.70

0.04

14

229.66

2.06

0.017

   Error

183

884.69

 

 

152

1208.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Treatment

1

1589.41

235.08

<0.0001

1

1220.50

120.53

<0.0001

   Month

8

426.29

7.88

<0.0001

8

190.70

2.35

0.019

   Month × treatment

8

187.84

3.47

0.0008

8

195.47

2.41

0.017

   Plant

22

807.43

5.43

<0.0001

17

550.73

3.20

<0.0001

   Error

238

1609.16

 

 

192

1944.26

 

 

   Notes: Individual plant was included as a blocking factor. F values were estimated from Type III sums of squares (SAS 1988). 

Literature cited

SAS. 1988. SAS/STAT user's Guide. Release 6.03 edition. SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA.



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