Table 1. Minimum adequate ANCOVA model for establishment success of crawlers in reciprocal transfers between red and mountain beech trees, with sums of squares recalculated after the removal of non-significant covariate effects of DBH and density of scale insects on the lower trunk. Removal of covariates did not alter the statistical significance of main effects or interaction terms.
| Sources of variation | SS | d.f. | MS | F | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source tree species | 0.11248 | 1 | 0.11248 | 5.1151 | 0.030 |
| Natal/novel host | 0.00149 | 1 | 0.00149 | 0.0678 | 0.796 |
| Interaction | 0.00808 | 1 | 0.00808 | 0.3676 | 0.548 |
| Error | 0.79166 | 36 |
