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Published in final edited form as: Biol Invasions. 2014 Dec 17;17(6):1669–1681. doi: 10.1007/s10530-014-0824-9

Table 1.

Treatment level abbreviations, sample size (N), and species compositions for the laboratory competition experiments testing for nonadditive effects of multispecies competition

Treatment	Abbreviation	N	Numbers of larvae present	Used for analysis of target species
Treatment	Abbreviation	N	Numbers of larvae present	Aedes japonicus	Aedes albopictus	Aedes triseriatus
Single species	J	6	20 A. japonicus	X
	JJ	5	40 A. japonicus	X
	JJJ	5	60 A. japonicus	X
	A	5	20 A. albopictus		X
	AA	5	40 A. albopictus		X
	AAA	5	60 A. albopictus		X
	T	5	20 A. triseriatus			X
	TT	5	40 A. triseriatus			X
	TTT	5	60 A. triseriatus			X
Two species	JT	6	20 A. japonicus + 20 A. triseriatus	X		X
	JA	6	20 A. japonicus + 20 A. albopictus	X	X
	AT	5	20 A. albopictus + 20 A. triseriatus		X	X
Three species	JAT	6	20 A. japonicus + 20 A. albopictus + 20 A. triseriatus	X	X	X
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Each target species’ response to treatment levels was analyzed separately using data from larvae that species in the indicated treatments (X). N specifies the number of containers; two- and three-species containers yield data for two and three of the analyses, respectively, one for the response variable (survivorship, λ′) for each species in the container