Ecological Archives E083-026-A4

Mitsue Shibata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Shigeo Iida, Shin Abe, Takashi Masaki, Kaoru Niiyama, and Tohru Nakashizuka. 2002. Synchronized annual seed production by 16 principal tree species in a temperate deciduous forest, Japan. Ecology 83:1727-1742.

Appendix D: Evaluation of the starvation at the pre-dispersal predation.


Species Seeds of the same species Seeds of congeneric species Seeds of species that are assumed to share common predators
r n P r n P r n P

Acer mono -0.46 8 0.252
-0.68 8 0.064
-0.75 6 0.089
Acer amoenum -0.76 6 0.082
Carpinus cordata -0.96 6 0.003**
-0.89 6 0.018
-0.89 5 0.041
-0.93 6 0.006*
-0.50 6 0.313
-0.86 6 0.027
-0.72 5 0.171
-0.83 6 0.041
-0.49 6 0.321
-0.76 7 0.048
Carpinus japonica -0.96 5 0.009**
Carpinus laxiflora -0.90 6 0.013*
Carpinus tschonoskii -0.47 6 0.347
Ostrya japonica -0.65 7 0.116
Swida controversa -0.87 6 0.025*
Styrax obassia -0.48 6 0.340
Fagus crenata -0.07 6 0.901
-0.22 5 0.716
-0.47 6 0.344
Fagus japonica -0.82 6 0.047*
Quercus crispula 0.07 6 0.900
-0.66 6 0.151
-0.77 8 0.025*
-0.67 6 0.142
-0.79 8 0.021
-0.29 6 0.578
Quercus serrata -0.78 8 0.219
Castanea crenata -0.84 6 0.035*

   Notes: The results of correlation between the ratio of the number of sound and holed seeds in year N to that in year N - 1 (log transformed) and the percentage of insect predation are shown. We test three types of the number of seeds as in Appendix C.


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