Invader success increases with disturbance
To understand the diversity loss at higher pulse frequencies in the
invaded treatments, we quantified invader success (proportion and
density of invader in the final community) and tested whether this
differed with pulse frequency. Invader proportion significantly
increased with increasing pulse frequency (effect size: 47.87,
p<0.001; Fig. 3A) and with pulse frequncy2(effect size: -58.78, p<0.001), as did invader density (effect
size of pulse: 37.79, p<0.001; effect size of pulse
frequncy2: -53.51, p<0.001; Fig. 3B).
Overall, these results show invader success is greater at higher pulse
frequencies than low.