Figure 6

The relationship between the total number of seedlings observed in the monitoring plots and the mean soil porewater salinity (±standard deviation) for the year prior to the seedling survey (when propagules were developing). Seedlings were surveyed in 12, 5 × 5 m plots (total area of 300 m2). Curve is an exponential decay of the form y = 22,149,609 (±22,954,957) * exp (−0.2035 (±0.0208) * x), R2 = 0.96, where standard error of the parameter estimates is in parentheses.