relative neighbour effect

 

Relationship between production of Helianthella quinquenervis flower heads that were not killed by frost and the first date of bare ground. The data were broken into two subsets by visual inspection; the early set (through day 139, in gray) has no significant slope or correlation, and both are significant for the later set (r2=0.313, P=0.02; from Inouye 2008)