TABLE 7.

Mean difference in growth rate ± SE, during the 2 months following the return of high conditions (ad libitum feeding or warm water) after low‐condition periods (starvation or cool water, after the second month and the ninth month) between treatment and control groups.

Species	Polypterus senegalus		Auchenoglanis occidentalis		Pelusios castaneus
Groups	Resource versus control	Temperature versus control	Resource versus control	Temperature versus control	Resource versus control	Temperature versus control
Δ Mean difference in specific growth rate of the length (SGRL) ± SE (%/day)
Δ 3rd month	0.00 ± 0.07	−0.18 ± 0.06	0.13 ± 0.06	−0.00 ± 0.09	0.06 ± 0.02	0.07 ± 0.03
Δ 4th month	−0.04 ± 0.07	−0.09 ± 0.04	0.05 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.04	0.02 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.02
Δ 10th month	−0.05 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.04			0.01 ± 0.02	0.08 ± 0.02
Δ 11th month	−0.05 ± 0.03	−0.03 ± 0.04			0.10 ± 0.04	0.09 ± 0.03
Δ Mean difference in specific growth rate of the weight (SGRW) ± SE (%/day)
Δ 3rd month	−0.02 ± 0.23	−0.33 ± 0.15	0.30 ± 0.10	−0.24 ± 0.13	−0.06 ± 0.15	0.09 ± 0.06
Δ 4th month	−0.08 ± 0.24	−0.31 ± 0.14	0.15 ± 0.09	0.03 ± 0.15	0.01 ± 0.06	0.14 ± 0.08
Δ 10th month	0.35 ± 0.11	0.16 ± 0.18			0.07 ± 0.06	0.12 ± 0.06
Δ 11th month	0.04 ± 0.21	−0.10 ± 0.09			0.08 ± 0.04	0.19 ± 0.06

Note: A higher growth rate in the Treatment group and the Control group after the return of high conditions may indicate a compensatory growth phenomenon. Values in bold: significant difference—p‐value ≤.05—between the mean growth rates recorded during the low‐condition periods and the 2 following months (linear mixed‐effects models and pairwise post hoc multiple comparisons); n—number of specimens per sample.