Ecological Archives E083-026-A5

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 E. 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 0.03 7 0.950
0.60 7 0.157
0.90 6 0.014*
Acer amoenum 0.70 6 0.125
Carpinus cordata -0.50 5 0.390
-0.52 5 0.365
0.14 4 0.858
-0.34 5 0.572
-0.86 5 0.060
-0.13 5 0.839
0.64 4 0.362
0.12 5 0.853
-0.63 5 0.255
0.01 6 0.978
Carpinus japonica -0.20 4 0.798
Carpinus laxiflora -0.42 5 0.480
Carpinus tschonoskii -0.84 5 0.073
Ostrya japonica 0.21 6 0.683
Swida controversa -0.49 6 0.319
Styrax obassia 0.48 5 0.415
Fagus crenata 0.17 5 0.786
0.03 5 0.963
0.41 5 0.498
Fagus japonica 0.40 5 0.510
Quercus crispula -0.97 5 0.007**
-0.94 5 0.018*
-0.93 7 0.003**
-0.94 5 0.016*
-0.92 7 0.003**
-0.37 6 0.467
Quercus serrata -0.93 7 0.002**
Castanea crenata -0.71 6 0.116

   Notes: The results of correlation between the ratio of the number of sound and holed seeds in year N to that in year N - 2 (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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