Ecological Archives E085-074-A2

Tia-Lynn Ashman, Denise H. Cole, and Megan Bradburn. 2004. Sex-differential resistance and tolerance to herbivory in a gynodioecious wild strawberry. Ecology 85:2550–2559.

Appendix B. Summary of F statistics and P values from mixed-model ANOVAs on potential mechanisms of tolerance in Fragaria virginiana.

 

Potential Mechanism of Tolerance

Source

Reserve buds

RGR

Initial plant size

Date of first flower

Flowering duration

Bench

0.16

2.37

3.15H

2.29

5.44*

Population

0.01

1.94

2.04

0.45

0.33

Sex

1.83

4.91*

0.50

1.03

1.43

Clipping

0.20

2.01

0.01

0.22

0.87

Genotype (Sex, Pop.)

2.27****

0.69

2.22****

1.59*

1.47*

Sex × Pop.

0.26

0.60

0.03

0.01

0.72

Clipping × Pop.

0.14

0.97

0.12

1.36

1.71

Clipping × Sex

0.29

0.78

0.99

0.36

0.14

Clipping × Geno.

1.37

0.75

0.93

1.03

0.94

Clipping × Sex × Pop.

0.14

0.05

0.83

2.96

4.30*

Initial Plant Size

15.92

Na

Na

1.32

0.24

   Notes: Bench, sex morph, population, treatment were fixed effects, genotype and its interactions were random effects. Significance denoted as † 0.10 < P < 0.05; * P < 0.05;*** P < 0.005;**** P < 0.0001. Na= not in model.



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