Figure 3. The sex-based difference in life-history traits including flowering proportion (a), diameter at breast height (DBH) (b), and relative growth rate (RGR) (c) of Diospyros morrisiana at the HSD 50-ha plot. The size of points on (a) represents the number of molecular-sexed individuals in each size class. Notably, flowering individuals were also molecular-sexed. The boxplots show difference in DBH (b) and RGR (c) between males and females in flowering and molecular-sexed individuals, with each individual represented as a dot. The thick horizontal line indicates the median, the box represents interquartile range (IQR), and the whiskers reach the maximum and minimum value within 1.5 * IQR. p -value significance level: not significant (ns) > 0.05, * < 0.05, ** < 0.01.