Table 4 Effects of rodent density on the slope of the generalized linear regression between seed attack rate or seed/seedling mortality rate and DTNCT (SGAD) at different seed‒seedling transition stages using LMMs

From: Distance-dependent seed‒seedling transition in the tree Castanopsis sclerophylla is altered by fragment size

Response variable

Fixed effect

Slope (mean ± S.E. (N samples))

LR tests

df

LR (p-value)

SGAD (seed-dispersal)

Rodent density

−0.862 ± 0.258 (51)

1

7.81 (0.005)**

SGAD (over-winter)

 

−1.652 ± 0.313 (50)

1

13.36 (<0.001)***

SGAD (seedling-emergence)

 

−1.743 ± 0.587 (48)

1

7.64 (0.006)**

  1. LR tests likelihood ratio tests
  2. **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
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