Table 4 Results of the ANOVA (three-factor) for abundance of the dominant caprellid species
Source of variation | df | P. kroyeri | P. marina | P. typicus | F versus | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MS | F | P | MS | F | P | MS | F | P | |||
Depth (De) | 1 | 4.45 | 1.23 | 0.2989 | 0.44 | 0.15 | 0.7078 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.9792 | Si (De × Se) |
Sediment type (Se) | 1 | 45.24 | 12.54 | 0.0076** | 2.77 | 0.94 | 0.3599 | 96.69 | 2.52 | 0.1510 | Si (De × Se) |
Site (De × Se) | 8 | 3.60 | 5.28 | 0.0007*** | 2.94 | 1.38 | 0.2563 | 38.36 | 2.06 | 0.0817 | Res |
De × Se | 1 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.9821 | 0.44 | 0.15 | 0.7078 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.9792 | Si (De × Se) |
Residual | 24 | 0.68 | 2.14 | 18.61 | |||||||
Cochran’s C test | C = 0.3127 | C = 0.7403 (P < 0.01) | C = 0.5552 (P < 0.01) | ||||||||
Transformation |
| ln (X + 1) | None | None |
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