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. 2014 Feb 6;9(2):e88093. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088093

Table 3. Effects of environmental characteristics upon the number of adventitious buds and shoots.

Herb layer cover Light Soil moisture Nutrient availability
effect test effect test effect test effect test
Intact corrected 2.24 (NS) 9.50 (0.0087) 2.40 (NS) 0.78 (NS)
non-corrected 0.79 (NS) 26.8 (1.5e-6) 15.8 (0.0004) 17.8 (0.0001)
Injured corrected 10.8 (0.0045) 3.89 (NS) 0.62 (NS) 0.63 (NS)
non-corrected 1.61 (NS) 10.1 (0.0066) 0.93 (NS) 1.02 (NS)
Difference corrected Inline graphic 79.0 (<1e-6) Inline graphic 77.1 (<1e-6) Inline graphic 64.8 (<1e-6) 0.13 (NS)
non-corrected Inline graphic 79.2 (<1e-6) Inline graphic 77.0 (<1e-6) Inline graphic 64.9 (<1e-6) 0.09 (NS)

Effects of individual predictors (major columns) were assessed separately for intact plants, injured plants, and for the difference between injured and intact plants (as an interaction). For the intact and injured plants, the response of plant height to increasing values of a predictor is presented graphically using up and down arrows, with the Inline graphic symbol indicating a significant interaction term further characterized in the text. The test statistic is a likelihood ratio to be compared with a χ2 distribution with two degrees of freedom. Type I error estimate (significance) is shown in parentheses for values below 0.1 (with others shown as NS), and the results shown in corrected rows represent models incorporating phylogenetic correction.