Table 3.
Effect of plant-available soil Si (Si), simulated herbivory (H) and their interactions (H:Si) on leaf Si concentrations in seedlings of eight tropical tree species.
| H | Si | H:Si | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dfnom, den | F | p | dfnom, den | F | p | dfnom, den | F | p | |
| ORMOMA | 1, 15 | 2.47 | 0.137 | 1, 15 | 0.02 | 0.899 | 1, 15 | 1.40 | 0.254 |
| CALOLO | 1, 24 | 1.17 | 0.290 | 1, 24 | 82.51 | <0.001 | 1, 24 | 0.36 | 0.557 |
| DENDAR | 1, 12 | 1.16 | 0.304 | 1, 12 | 0.02 | 0.895 | 1, 12 | 0.46 | 0.512 |
| EUGEOE | 1, 16 | 2.63 | 0.124 | 1, 16 | 78.89 | <0.001 | 1, 16 | 1.13 | 0.304 |
| SOROAF | 1, 20 | 3.42 | 0.079 | 1, 20 | 84.65 | <0.001 | 1, 20 | 1.88 | 0.186 |
| INGAQU | 1, 24 | 2.92 | 0.100 | 1, 24 | 31.92 | <0.001 | 1, 24 | 1.02 | 0.322 |
| RANDAR | 1, 24 | 12.18 | 0.002 | 1, 24 | 17.25 | <0.001 | 1, 24 | 1.60 | 0.219 |
| HERRPU | 1, 16 | 0.07 | 0.794 | 1, 16 | 7.32 | 0.016 | 1, 16 | 0.00 | 0.965 |
Results of ANOVAs are shown. Significant responses (p < 0.05) are shown in bold. Species codes are given in Table 1 .