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In analyses of Mantel and partial Mantel tests, the positive correlation between the genetic and geographic distances was only marginally significant ( p = 0.096 and 0.059, respectively, Figure S1 ).

In particular, the Y trees were revealed to be less sensitive to the climate, and their response was barely significant at p < 0.1 (P–Tmax) or non-significant (P–Tmin).

Other variables that were almost significant ( p < 0.1), namely, soil pH, total nitrogen content, and mean annual temperature, explained 5.8% of the RBAI variability.

A simple linear regression analysis showed marginally significant (control, 0.05 ≤ p ≤ 0.1, Figure 4 A, Table 2 ) or significant (+25%, +50%, +75%, and +100% water addition treatment, all p ≤ 0.05, Figure 4 B–E, Table 2 ) downward quadratic correlations between OSR and the summer mean temperature (T sum ).

Compared to CK, a set of nine OTUs with marginally significant different abundances (Tukey, p < 0.1) was found in either the GM or NonGM treatments ( Figure 2 A), consisting of five Proteobacteria, one Firmicutes, one Actinobacteria, one GN04 and one Nitrospirae OTU.

When the effect was either marginally significant (0.05 < p -value < 0.1) or significant ( p -value < 0.05), multiple means comparison was completed using Fisher’s LSD at the 5% level of significance, and letter groupings were generated.

Overall, supplementary pollinated flowers produced a significantly ( p < 0.05) or marginally significant ( p < 0.10) lower proportion of small fruits compared to open pollination in three out of nine orchards in 2018, and in six out of twenty-two in 2019 ( Tables S2 and S3 ).

The Correlation between Phenology and the Simulated Increase in Precipitation A simple linear regression analysis showed that the beginning times of leaf budding, leaf unfolding and leaf senescence had a marginally significant linear negative correlation with the increase in simulated precipitation during an extremely wet year (0.05 < p ≤ 0.10), but this correlation was not significant during an extremely dry year ( Figure 6 A).

europaea , a species associated with mature stands, showed a quasi-significant ( p < 0.1) positive effect from selection thinning, and Sylvia cantillans seemed to have increased after thinning (the species was recorded in four points in 2018, vs. only two points in 2015), though analyses did not show significant effects.

Furthermore, other correlations such as those between DMY IR and N C , and between DMY IR and A C °, approached the level of significance ( p < 0.1).

faxoniana showed significant positive correlations with soil capillary water content (r = 0.39 and 0.38, respectively; p < 0.05) and marginally significant associations with maximum and minimum water-holding capacities ( p < 0.1), indicating that the distribution and competitive advantage of these conifers may be closely linked to the sustained availability of capillary-bound water in the upper soil layers.

In the case of olive plantlets treated by foliar spray, a statistical trend towards a reduction in MDA levels compared to control plants was observed ( p < 0.1).

Although the environmental correlation was only marginally significant between capitulum number and capitulum size ( r = 0.08 chi-square = 2.7, p = 0.10; Figure 1 E), the environmental correlation between seed production and rhizome production was highly significant ( r = 0.31 chi-square = 41.15, p < 0.0001; Figure 1 F) in Experiment 1. 2.3.

Additionally, under both cold stress and BR-combined cold treatment, all of the SSL, SRL, SDW, and SWW showed highly significant positive correlations with r = 0.19 ( p ≤ 0.1), r = 0.19 ( p ≤ 0.1), r = 0.43 ( p ≤ 0.01), and r = 0.76 ( p ≤ 0.01), respectively.

ovata, population differentiation in leaf traits was marginally nonsignificant ( p ≤ 0.1) on the first maximum variance axis (LD1 42.4%, p = 0.081; LD2 21.8%, p = 0.690), whereas in E. pauciflora statistically significant differentiation occurred in two independent directions (LD1 42%, p < 0.001, and LD2 23.4%, p = 0.045) ( Figure 1 ).

However, the Commercial treatment promoted an 18% reduction in g s compared with the Control ( p < 0.10, marginally significant) ( Figure 4 a).

The shoot biomass results approached significance ( P = 0.119, Figure 3 ).

californicus , while a decreasing trend was observed, this was not statistically significant (R 2 = 0.22, F(1,8) = 2.3, p = 0.168), and again, no significant effect of the year on the area was observed (β Year = −87.9 ± 58, p = 0.168) ( Figure 5 ).

In the shrub layer, the Simpson, Shannon, and Pielou indices showed no significant changes across the expansion gradient, although the Shannon index exhibited an increasing trend with deeper expansion (τ ≈ 0, p > 0.5).

The data of attacked olives from the last two dates exhibited a slight significance ( p -value < 90%), namely p < 0.056 on the date of 8 October and p < 0.068 on the date of 21 October. 2.4.

As shown in Figure 3 d, the content of ferulic acid in all four experimental groups showed an increasing trend.

In addition, WRKY transcription factor WRKY2 showed a trend of first decreasing and then increasing in expression. 2.4.

Although the SDA shrinkage trend of northern plants is highly significant compared to that of southern plants, the SDA expansion was not significantly different.

Correlation between Yield Plasticity and Another Trait’s Plasticity The correlation analysis of trait plasticity exhibited that grain yield plasticity is highly significant and positively correlated with the plasticities of seed length and seed number, indicating that the plasticity of these yield components heavily contributes to grain yield plasticity.

betulifolia showed a trend of increasing and then decreasing, while CAT activity showed a trend of decreasing and then increasing.