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From: Entangled effects of allelic and clonal (genotypic) richness in the resistance and resilience of experimental populations of the seagrass Zostera noltii to diatom invasion

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Evolution of allelic and genotypic richness with time. Boxplots illustrating the relationships between both allelic (left) and genotypic (right) richness and the number of surviving shoots, after the diatom bloom (top, resistance) and after 10 months survey (bottom, resilience). These graphs illustrate the tendency that could be misleadingly attributed to each parameter alone if ignoring the parallel increase of the other (“hidden effect” illustrated in the upper rectangles with arrows). In regression analysis associated to those graphs, a correlation would be detected between each estimator of richness and the resistance of subplots (upper part of the graphs; p = 0.002 for allelic richness and p = 0.015 for genotypic richness), and only the “genotypic richness” analysis would show a positive relationship with resilience (bottom part of the graphs; p = 0.171 for allelic richness, p = 0.025 for genotypic richness).

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