Ecological Archives E091-059-A5

Eduardo T. Mezquida and Craig W. Benkman. 2010. Habitat area and structure affect the impact of seed predators and the potential for coevolutionary arms races. Ecology 91:802–814.

Appendix E. Mean cone measurements for mountain pine sampled from 10 sites in the Pyrenees and two small, isolated forests in the Iberian System.

Pyrenees

Iberian System

Measurement

Larra

Bujaruelo

Gistaín

Cerler

Beret

L’Orri

Vansa

Meranges

Masella

Setcases

Gúdar

Vinuesa

Cone length (mm)

50.62

52.60

50.87

49.94

51.05

53.55

46.19

45.26

46.82

46.70

42.65

46.85

Cone width (mm)

26.79

28.62

29.28

29.55

30.42

30.12

29.80

29.06

28.98

28.99

27.28

29.46

Number of scales

9.01

8.83

9.07

8.82

8.98

9.25

9.15

8.92

8.73

8.97

8.60

8.50

Cone mass (g)

7.63

9.22

9.02

10.18

10.22

11.28

8.77

8.47

8.23

8.63

7.04

8.28

Number of full seeds

29.97

43.98

42.08

38.42

44.60

40.17

31.96

33.98

36.79

40.10

25.92

45.32

Number of empty seeds

6.37

6.48

5.66

7.65

5.44

8.23

5.11

4.65

6.11

5.95

6.98

5.62

Individual seed mass (mg)

10.31

10.14

9.83

10.70

8.91

9.40

9.19

8.71

8.76

8.83

9.87

9.14

Seed mass/cone mass

0.048

0.055

0.051

0.047

0.044

0.041

0.038

0.040

0.045

0.047

0.046

0.056

Scale thickness (mm)

6.18

6.06

6.93

6.57

6.69

6.54

6.92

5.12

5.43

Scale length (mm)

17.52

18.64

17.85

18.52

18.65

20.16

16.95

17.11

18.32

17.97

17.08

18.11

Number of trees sampled

45

30

44

30

31

30

23

30

31

30

30

30


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