Metadata population dynamics in artificial metapopulations

The file contains raw data used in the accompanied manuscript. One sheet contains all demographic data (population size, per stage) during the course of the experiment. A second sheet contains dispersal data (counts on quadrants

Effects of the soil treatment on plant performance.

<p>A): plant dry biomass; B: shoot water content; C: N and P-content. Equal notations indicate non-significant contrast for the respective plant performance measurements. Values marked with the same letter symbol do not differ significantly (P>0.05) after Tukey correction.</p

Effects of soil treatment on the selected life history parameters (mean values ± SE) for mites of the three selection lines.

<p>Green bars: mites developed on AMF-treated plants; Red bars: mites developed on Nematode-treated plants; Grey bars: mites developed on Control plants (no belowground biota). A: time to maturity (females), B: survival rate of females, C: daily fecundity, D: sex ratio (females/total clutch size). Statistical significant differences within selection lines after Tukey-corrections: *: P<0.05; **: P<0.01; ***: P<0.001.</p

Results of ANOVA of the measured plant biomass and plant quality variables in relation to the soil treatment.

<p>Results of ANOVA of the measured plant biomass and plant quality variables in relation to the soil treatment.</p

Results for fixed effects from mixed linear models with time to maturity, female survival rates till maturity, daily fecundity, sex ratio and simulated growth rate as response variable^*.

<p>*Gaussian error distributions were modelled for time to maturity, Poisson errors for daily fecundity, binomial errors for female survival and sex ratio.</p

Effects of the soil treatment on measure growth rate r_m.

<p>The mean integrated fitness measure growth rate r_m relates to the number of female offspring by one female per generation for mites from each of the three selection lines. Green bars: AMF-treatment; Red bars: Nematode-treatment Grey bars: Control treatment (no belowground biota). Error bars represent the 99% CI for each of the selection line x treatment combinations. *ns: differences between nematode and AMF treatment are not significant after correction for multiple testing (pairwise difference: P = 0.01).</p