Figure 1.
Germination percentage (GP) and mean germination time (GT) of seeds from 14 orders.
1 = Asterales, 2 = Brassicales, 3 = Caryophyllales, 4 = Ericales, 5 = Fabales, 6 = Gentianales, 7 = Lamiales, 8 = Liliales, 9 = Malpighiales, 10 = Myrtales, 11 = Poales, 12 = Ranunculales, 13 = Rosales, 14 = Saxifragales.
Figure 2.
Germination percentage (GP) and mean germination time (GT) in different taxonomic groups.
(A) GP and GT of seeds from seven families; (B) GP and GT of seeds from five seed size groups; (C) GP and GT of seeds from four dispersal mode groups; (D) GP and GT of seeds from three habitats. Bars (mean±SE) that do not share a letter represent significantly different values at P<0.05 level (Turkey multiple comparison test). Different lowercase letters and capital letters indicate significant difference of GP and GT, respectively.
Table 1.
Results of one-way ANOVAs showing effect of phylogeny, life form, seed size, dispersal mode, onset of flowering, duration of flowering, temperature and habitat on final germination percentage (GP) and mean germination time (GT) among 134 species, R2 is the proportion of variance explained by each factor.
Table 2.
Results of two-way ANOVAs showing the independent effects of one of two main factors that have significant effects in one-way ANOVAs and interaction effects on germination percentage (GP) and mean germination time (GT) due to phylogenetic group (P), life form (LF), seed size (SS), dispersal mode (DM), onset of flowering (OF), duration of flowering (DF), temperature (T) and habitat (H). R2 is the proportion of variance explained by each factor (Only significant interaction terms are shown).
Table 3.
Multi-factorial ANOVAs for the independent effects of each main factor and their associations.
Table 4.
Multi-factorial ANOVAs for the independent effects of each main factor and their associations.
Figure 3.
Effects of temperature on germination percentage (GP) and mean germination time (GT).
Bars (mean±SE) that do not share a letter represent significantly different values at P<0.05 level (Turkey multiple comparison test).
Figure 4.
Effects of temperature treatments on seed mortality during germination.
Bars (mean±SE) that do not share a letter represent significantly different values at P<0.05 level (Turkey multiple comparison test).