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. 2014 May 20;114(1):85–96. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcu082

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Fig. 3. — (A) Relationship between disturbance levels (moderate and intense) and the density of seedlings per m² ± s.e. Moderate disturbance is recent evidence (<6 months old) of disturbance (e.g. disturbed leaf litter, plants slashed by road equipment); intensive disturbance is bare earth exposed recently (<6 months old, e.g. by roadside grading, lyrebird scratchings). The differences were significant (F_1,18 = 146·18, P < 0·0001). A third class of disturbance, undisturbed (see the Methods section for details) was only associated with seedlings once, with five seedlings over 25 m². (B) Relationship between the number of plants that establish at time = 0 and the longevity of the population (years to extinction) (R² = 0·22, P = 0·01). (C) Relationship between disturbance and population persistence (number of disturbance events) (R² = 0·83, P<0·0001).