Effects of regular and irregular temporal patterns of disturbance on biomass accrual and species composition of a subtidal hard-bottom assemblage

Table 3 ANOVA-results for diversity measures in August (75 days) and October (150 days)

Source	df	Evenness				Species richness
		75 days		150 days		75 days		150 days
		F	P	F	P	F	P	F	P
Disturbance D	1	0.06	0.821	1.27	0.297	1.41	0.274	0.11	0.746
Irregularity (I)	1	0.02	0.896	2.05	0.195	1.25	0.301	0.10	0.765
Degree of irregularity (DI)	1	0.05	0.834	0.00	0.975	0.58	0.472	0.01	0.921
Sequence (irregularity) SQ(I)	2	2.07	0.112	0.27	0.896	0.20	0.938	0.28	0.886
Block (B)	7	1.73	0.143	0.83	0.573	2.24	0.061	0.35	0.926
B × D	7	1.85	0.117	2.60	0.033	1.04	0.425	0.40	0.891
B × I	7	0.22	0.978	0.93	0.496	0.88	0.534	0.49	0.833
B × DI	7	1.44	0.228	0.36	0.920	0.63	0.731	0.85	0.558
B × SQ(I)	28	0.82	0.685	0.90	0.608	1.09	0.438	1.53	0.882
Residual	16

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