Ecological Archives E083-034-A2

Hilary S. Callahan and Massimo Pigliucci. 2002. Shade-induced plasticity and its ecological significance in wild populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology 83:1965-1980.

Appendix B. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients for the four treatments: (A) treatment 1: unshaded early/unshaded late, (B) treatment 2: unshaded early/shaded late, (C) treatment 3: shaded early/unshaded late, and (D) treatment 4: shaded early/shaded late.

Variables

Bolting day

Leaf number

Rosette diameter

Inflorescence height

Total fruits produced
A) Treatment 1

  Bolting day

          

  Leaf number

 0.66***

        

  Rosette diameter

-0.02

0.44***

      

  Inflorescence height

-0.42***

0.05

0.59***

    

  Total fruits produced

-0.45***

0.05

0.56***

0.81***

  
B) Treatment 2

  Bolting day

          

  Leaf number

 0.53**

        

  Rosette diameter

-0.03

0.53***

      

  Inflorescence height

-0.52***

0.08

0.51***

    

  Total fruits produced

-0.36***

0.13

0.43***

0.83***

  
C) Treatment 3

  Bolting day

          

  Leaf number

 0.57***

        

  Rosette diameter

-0.01

 0.31**

      

  Inflorescence height

-0.55***

 0.01

0.38***

    

  Total fruits produced

-0.61***

-0.09

0.34***

0.77***

  
D) Treatment 4

  Bolting day

          

  Leaf number

 0.31***

        

  Rosette diameter

-0.20

0.40***

      

  Inflorescence height

-0.29*

0.07

0.25+

    

  Total fruits produced

-0.41***

0.09

0.28*

0.48***

  

   Note: Significance levels, after a simultaneous Bonferroni correction for multiple tests, are indicated by *** for P < 0.001, ** for P < 0.01,  and * for P < 0.05.


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