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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: For Ecol Manage. 2019;442:79–95. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.03.063

Appendix C.

Results of preliminary MANOV test for the main effects tree age, site, year and canopy position alone and their interaction on SNC incidence in study areas in western Oregon. Only one- and two-year-old needles were used for statistical analysis because three- and older needles had limited data for testing covariance.

F-value p-value
Needle age =1 (Intercept) 191.6 < 0.001 ***
Tree age 81.4 < 0.001 ***
Site 55.3 < 0.001 ***
Tree age × Site 18.8 < 0.001 ***
Year 1.1 0.307
Tree age × Year 0.2 0.654
Site × Year 6.7 0.002 **
Tree age × Site × Year 1.1 0.375
Canopy 8.3 0.003 **
Tree age × Canopy 3.6 0.048 *
Site × Canopy 4.3 0.001 ***
Tree age × Site × Canopy 3.1 0.008 **
Year × Canopy 0.0 0.977
Tree age × Year × Canopy 2.4 0.120
Site × Year × Canopy 0.7 0.722
Tree age × Site × Year × Canopy 1.4 0.220
NeedleAge =2 (Intercept) 1320.0 < 0.001 ***
Tree age 403.5 < 0.001 ***
Site 47.6 < 0.001 ***
Tree age × Site 24.1 < 0.001 ***
Year 23.7 < 0.001 ***
Tree age × Year 7.9 0.011 *
Site × Year 6.3 0.002 **
Tree age × Site × Year 4.1 0.015 *
Canopy 5.2 0.017 *
Tree age × Canopy 0.7 0.494
Site × Canopy 1.4 0.234
Tree age × Site × Canopy 1.6 0.161
Year × Canopy 0.8 0.460
Tree age × Year × Canopy 1.8 0.193
Site × Year × Canopy 0.7 0.666
Tree age × Site × Year × Canopy 0.7 0.678