Table I. Mortality rates (numbers and percentage) during the last 4 years in the long lived monocarpic plant, S. longifolia.
Monitoring of individual plants was carried out between June and August of the given periods (indicated in parentheses). Mortality rates refer to juveniles (Juv) and flowering (R).
| Pantano de la Peña | San Juan de la Peña | Las Blancas | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juv | R | Juv | R | Juv | R | ||||
| N (2011-2012) | 194 | 204 | 281 | ||||||
| Dead | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 0 | |||
| % mortality |
3.1 |
1.0 |
6.9 |
5.9 |
1.8 |
0.0 |
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| N (2012-2013) | 230 | 205 | 285 | ||||||
| Dead | 33 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 13 | 3 | |||
| % mortality |
14.3 |
0.0 |
10.7 |
0.0 |
4.6 |
1.1 |
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| N (2013-2014) | 211 | 201 | 276 | ||||||
| Dead | 11 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 13 | 42 | |||
| % mortality |
5.2 |
0.5 |
14.9 |
0.0 |
4.7 |
15.2 |
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| N (2014-2015) | 204 | 198 | 217 | ||||||
| Dead | 10 | 12 | 27 | 10 | 18 | 2 | |||
| % mortality |
4.9 |
5.9 |
13.6 |
5.1 |
8.3 |
0.9 |
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| Average (2011-2015) | 6.9 | 1.8 | 11.5 | 2.8 | 4.8 | 4.3 | |||