Influence of successional group and seed size on seedling
establishment
Combining the control data from the two experiments together, we found
that successional group and seed size greatly affected germination rates
on landslide sites. Late successional group species had a 30% higher
germination rate than pioneer species by direct seeding on landslide
scars (p<0.001; Figure 7). Meanwhile, medium and large seeded
species have 31.6% - 36.3% higher germination rates than small size
species (p<0.01; Figure 8). There was no significant
difference of seed germination percentage between medium and large size
seeded species (Figure 8), which might largely be because only one
large-size seeded species was explored here.