What Is in the Bank? Assessing Persistent Soil Seed Bank Density of Sclerocactus wrightiae (Cactaceae)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site
2.2. Soil Sampling
2.3. Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Model Structure | df a | logLik b | AICc c | Delta d | Weight e |
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Presence~Position + Distance | 4 | −106.93 | 221.9 | 0.00 | 0.395 |
Presence~Depth + Position + Distance | 5 | −106.64 | 223.4 | 1.46 | 0.191 |
Presence~Distance | 2 | −109.77 | 223.6 | 1.63 | 0.175 |
Presence~Position | 3 | −109.40 | 224.8 | 2.91 | 0.092 |
Presence~Depth + Distance | 3 | −109.48 | 225.0 | 3.08 | 0.085 |
Presence~Depth + Position | 4 | −109.11 | 226.3 | 4.36 | 0.045 |
Presence~1 | 1 | −113.48 | 229.0 | 7.03 | 0.012 |
Presence~Depth | 2 | −113.20 | 230.4 | 8.48 | 0.006 |
Estimate a | Std. Error b | Adj. SEc | z-Value d | LCI e | UCI f | |
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Intercept | −2.1264 | 0.3437 | 0.3443 | 6.177 | −2.6217 | −1.6312 |
Position (Nurse plant) | 3.3989 | 884.2836 | 886.4470 | 0.004 | −1271.530 | 1278.3277 |
Position (Upslope) | −1.8297 | 1.0258 | 1.0283 | 1.779 | −3.3086 | −0.3508 |
Distance | −0.0772 | 0.0358 | 0.03586 | 2.154 | −0.1288 | −0.0257 |
Depth | −0.2905 | 0.3823 | 0.3842 | 0.756 | −0.8431 | 0.2620 |
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Lariviere, D.; Anderson, V.; Johnson, R.; Larsen, R. What Is in the Bank? Assessing Persistent Soil Seed Bank Density of Sclerocactus wrightiae (Cactaceae). Diversity 2024, 16, 133. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16030133
Lariviere D, Anderson V, Johnson R, Larsen R. What Is in the Bank? Assessing Persistent Soil Seed Bank Density of Sclerocactus wrightiae (Cactaceae). Diversity. 2024; 16(3):133. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16030133
Chicago/Turabian StyleLariviere, David, Val Anderson, Robert Johnson, and Randy Larsen. 2024. "What Is in the Bank? Assessing Persistent Soil Seed Bank Density of Sclerocactus wrightiae (Cactaceae)" Diversity 16, no. 3: 133. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16030133