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