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Table III

The least squares means (LS-Means) and standard error (se) of each of the five clusters for the variables associated with cone productivity: the number of cones (nc), cone crop weight (wc) and stand characteristics: total number of trees (NT) and total number of stone pine trees (NPm).

Cluster n c 1 n c 2 n c 3 wc1 (kg) wc2 (kg) wc3 (kg) NT NPm
ID

1 1.62 (45.30) a 0.86 (6.00) a 2.47 (9.01) a 0.5 (14.43) a 0.14 (1.23) a 0.55 (2.47) a 146.46 (8.42) a 122.59 (6.69) a
2 15.84 (13.08) a 9.23 (1.54) a 16.02 (2.62) a 4.68 (4.1) a 1.85 (0.31) a 4.18 (0.72) a 160.37 (2.31) a 144.15 (1.84) a
3 94.99 (13.58 ) b 50.3 (2.98) b 60.11 (4.06) b 30.11 (4.33) b 10.3 (0.61) b 16.11 (1.14) b 107.65 (3.84) b 76.67 (3.05) b
4 183.7 (17.44) c 97.6 (3.84) c 135.95 (5.60) c 62.89 (5.55) c 21.14 (0.78) c 40.21 (1.54) c 69.74 (5.24) c 49.2 (4.16) c
5 603.65 (31.07) d 266.06 (9.44) d 365.38 (12.88) d 165.59 (9.90) d 54.56 (1.93) d 107.96 (3.52) d 48.02 (12.36) c 35.5 (9.82) c

Different letters (a, b, c and d) within the columns indicate significant differences at p < 0.05 between different clusters.