Table 2.

Statistics of the ANOVA with repeated measures to test the effect of 24 h storage between wet and moist paper towels on leaf fresh mass of 14 species

	df	Mean square	F	P
Towel moisture (M)	1	0.0106	0.01	0.758
Species (Sp)	13	36.6771	331	<0.001
M×Sp	13	0.0744	0.67	0.790
Residual	191	0.1109
Storage time (T)	1	0.0668	585	<0.001
T×M	1	0.0058	51.0	<0.001
T×Sp	13	0.0020	17.7	<0.001
T×M×Sp	13	0.0007	6.39	<0.001
Residual	191	0.0001

Leaf fresh mass was the dependent variable (measured at 0 h and 24 h), towel moisture (moist, wet) and species (n=14) were the independent variables. The fresh mass values were log-arcsine-transformed to attain normality.