Table 2. Mutual invasibility experiments testing the ability of native perennial grass seedlings to invade exotic annual communities and vice versa.
Biomass response to treatment
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Resident annuals
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Seeded annuals
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Experiment | Source | df | S.S. | P | S.S. | P | S.S. | P | S.S. | P |
Water | Block | 7 | 144.37 | 0.332 | 388.44 | <0.001 | 122.43 | 0.087 | 205.11 | 0.033 |
Seeding | 1 | 48.46 | 0.104 | 86.05 | 0.002 | 22.60 | 0.113 | 3.84 | 0.553 | |
Water | 1 | 56.22 | 0.082 | 137.92 | <0.001 | 140.82 | <0.001 | 8.45 | 0.381 | |
Seed with water | 1 | 1.92 | 0.739 | 7.45 | 0.314 | 11.21 | 0.257 | 14.65 | 0.252 | |
Total | 31 | 604.04 | 767.054 | 470.47 | 453.80 | |||||
Nitrogen | Block | 4 | 59.77 | 0.305 | 68.62 | 0.005 | 32.13 | 0.673 | 34.11 | 0.763 |
Seeding | 1 | 87.31 | 0.016 | 58.34 | <0.001 | 3.48 | 0.622 | 4.26 | 0.641 | |
Nitrogen | 1 | 1.33 | 0.734 | 1.73 | 0.438 | 1.56 | 0.740 | 16.96 | 0.361 | |
Seed with N | 1 | 4.42 | 0.538 | 0.01 | 0.962 | 2.27 | 0.690 | 0.32 | 0.899 | |
Total | 19 | 284.67 | 160.94 | 173.87 | 240.34 | |||||
Fire | Block | 3 | 47.46 | 0.041 | 20.41 | 0.193 | 15.54 | 0.136 | 37.53 | 0.292 |
Seeding | 1 | 17.06 | 0.063 | 91.35 | <0.001 | 4.34 | 0.190 | 31.31 | 0.089 | |
Fire | 1 | 2.34 | 0.452 | 2.30 | 0.430 | 0.83 | 0.551 | 0.65 | 0.790 | |
Seed with fire | 1 | 3.31 | 0.374 | 0.02 | 0.946 | 2.90 | 0.277 | 17.53 | 0.189 | |
Total | 15 | 104.19 | 145.68 | 43.07 | 164.56 |
Biomass of resident and seeded species are analyzed separately for two scenarios: perennials seeded into an annual community and annuals seeded into a perennial community.