Establecimiento de cuatro especies de Quercus en el sur de la ...

Maternal influences on seed‐mass effect and initial seedling growth in four Quercus species
Intra‐specific level
Seed mass variability
As expected, seed‐mass varied across maternal trees (Fig. 2). However, some
mother trees had seeds with similar sizes; for instance, no differences were found
between the seeds of mothers 4 and 5 in Q. ilex (Tuckey HSD post hoc test, Fig. 2). A
similar situation was found for the rest of the species, since differences were found
between some mother trees but not between others. All the mother trees had
coefficients of variation in seed mass between 16% and 42% (Fig. 2), so there was also
a variation within the seeds of one mother tree.
Figure 2. Mean seed mass of the different mothers for each species. Different letters represent
statistically different groups according to post‐hoc Tukey test (P < 0.05). The coefficient of variation is
also shown below each box.
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