Table 3.
Results of ANCOVA on zooplankton composition by taxa, represented by the scores of PCO1 generated from distance matries based on abundance or biomass per each zooplankton taxonomic group. The asterisk symbols indicate significant results (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001). Zooplankton composition given by PCO1 was affected by the thermal origin of fish larvae (heated/unheated), experimental temperature and their interaction.
distance matrix based on | variables | F | p-value |
---|---|---|---|
abundance | origin | 16.65 | <0.001 *** |
temperature | 9.85 | 0.005 ** | |
origin × temperature | 5.64 | 0.027 * | |
biomass | origin | 19.69 | <0.001 *** |
temperature | 13.4 | 0.001 ** | |
origin × temperature | 7.2 | 0.014 * |