Table 1. Introduction success as predicted by the symbiosis trait.
Factor |
All species |
Non-native species Only |
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Coefficient | Lower CI | Upper CI | Coefficient | Lower CI | Upper CI | |
Intercept | −8.055 | — | — | −3.125 | — | — |
Symbiosis? | −0.523† | −0.960 | −0.437 | −0.587† | −0.832 | −0.416 |
Latitude | 0.142† | 0.094 | 0.210 | 0.026 | −0.013 | 0.063 |
Total native area | 0.194† | 0.119 | 0.211 | −0.058† | −0.092 | −0.038 |
Annual? | 1.092† | 0.915 | 1.267 | 0.198† | 0.065 | 0.329 |
Woody? | 0.353‡ | 0.084 | 0.404 | −0.476† | −0.634 | −0.408 |
Number of human uses | 0.964† | 0.865 | 0.981 | 0.323† | 0.282 | 0.370 |
Area of introduced region | 0.010 | −0.049 | 0.046 | 0.019 | −0.046 | 0.051 |
Symbiosis by human uses interaction | 0.152† | 0.104 | 0.223 | 0.080† | 0.042 | 0.129 |
CI, 95% confidence interval.
Symbiosis is incorporated into the model as the presence or absence of the trait, with the inclusion of other factors found to predict introductions in our legume dataset. A negative coefficient indicates lower introduction success for symbiotic legumes compared with non-symbiotic legumes. We excluded non-significant interaction terms. 95% confidence intervals were obtained from parametric bootstrapping. Each response variable is modelled at the species by region level, and the model included a species and a region random effect to account for non-independence of observations within species or regions. The estimated variance for the species and region random effects respectively were 4.83 and 0.85 for the all species model, and 0.9 and 1.43 for the non-native species only model.
†99.9% CI does not overlap zero.
‡99% CI does not overlap zero.