The marginally significant reduction of trapping success by the ‘anti-slip coating’ on the lower lid surface, despite the presence of other effective trapping mechanisms, indicates an important contribution of the lid towards natural prey capture in N. gracilis .
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With a flick of the lid: a novel trapping mechanism in Nepenthes gracilis pitcher plants.
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We found a highly significant dependence of the surfaces' trapping efficiency on the experimental conditions (ANOVA comparing two separate Generalised Linear Mixed Models, for details see Methods , df = 4, χ 2 = 185.97, P <0.001; Fig. 2B ).