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Table 3 Germination capacity (GC) and germination speed (GS) for the 3 years of the study

From: Reproductive patterns in Araucaria araucana forests in the Andean range, Chile

Production level of cones (year)

GC (%)

GS(% day− 1)

Low (2012)

78.7 ± 3.47 B

2.2 ± 0.16 B

High (2013)

91.7 ± 1.53 A

3.0 ± 0.13 A

Intermediate (2014)

18.5 ± 7.89 C

0.43 ± 0.16 C

  1. Different letters indicate significant differences among years by the Tukey test (p ≤ 0.05). GC: F = 96.08, p < 0.01; GS: F = 45.41, p < 0.01).