Herbivory was greater in banana slug and mixed enclosures than in alien and control enclosures (P < 0.0001), driving by greater preference of banana slugs for native shrubs and ferns compared to alien black slugs (mean ± SE, letters indicate significant differences among treatments after separate Wilcoxon test corrected with Bonferroni corrections).

  
 
  Part of: Rodriguez-Cabal MA, Gibbons TC, PM, Barrios-Garcia MN, Crutsinger GM (2015) Comparing functional similarity between a native and an alien slug in temperate rain forests of British Columbia. NeoBiota 25: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.25.8316