Fig. 5.

Mean finite rate of increase in response to inter- and intraspecific larval densities in multispecies competition experiment, for a A. japonicus, b A. triseriatus, c A. albopictus. Treatment abbreviations correspond to abbreviations given in Table 1. For each species, filled points represent actual mean λ′ (±SE, =√MSE/n); the open point represents expected λ′ in the multispecies treatment if effects of competing species on target species λ′ were additive and accurately predicted by effects on the target species observed in the 2-species combinations. Asterisk a mean for A. japonicus significantly different from means from all other treatments for A. japonicus