Table 5.

Associations between the proportional frequencies of the immatures of the M and S forms among sampling sites within a habitat, or among larval breeding habitats as influenced by each physicochemical property of water during a category of rainfall in Banambani

Source	df	Young		Old		Total
		χ2	P	χ2	P	χ2	P
Alkalinity	1	3.34	0.068	0.22	0.636	2.64	0.104
Habitat	2	4.59	0.101	2.39	0.303	4.39	0.111
Site within a habitat	2	6.52	0.038*	5.61	0.060	3.50	0.174
Category of rainfall	2	4.38	0.112	2.73	0.255	4.43	0.109
Conductivity	1	1.59	0.208	0.60	0.438	0.06	0.812
Habitat	2	3.20	0.202	2.82	0.244	3.55	0.169
Site within a habitat	2	6.51	0.039*	5.29	0.071	1.35	0.508
Category of rainfall	2	3.01	0.222	2.47	0.291	3.79	0.812
Dissolved oxygen	1	0.59	0.443	0.03	0.872	0.85	0.357
Habitat	2	5.02	0.081	2.14	0.343	5.28	0.072
Site within a habitat	2	6.31	0.043*	5.69	0.058	1.79	0.409
Category of rainfall	2	3.45	0.179	2.54	0.280	3.97	0.137
Nitrate	1	1.05	0.305	0.56	0.455	0.01	0.906
Habitat	2	5.48	0.065	2.44	0.295	5.02	0.081
Site within a habitat	2	5.77	0.056	5.28	0.071	1.22	0.543
Category of rainfall	2	5.28	0.071	2.23	0.327	3.77	0.152
Orthophosphate	1	-	-	0.26	0.610	-	-
Habitat	2			2.32	0.314
Site within a habitat	2			5.05	0.080
Category of rainfall	2			2.58	0.275
pH	1	0.73	0.393	1.14	0.285	1.68	0.195
Habitat	2	4.27	0.118	1.31	0.521	4.08	0.130
Site within a habitat	2	5.71	0.058	6.23	0.044*	0.88	0.645
Category of rainfall	2	5.28	0.203	2.21	0.332	3.14	0.209
Temperature	1	0.01	0.934	1.64	0.201	1.78	0.182
Habitat	2	4.75	0.093	2.85	0.241	5.54	0.063
Site within a habitat	2	6.39	0.041*	5.69	0.058	1.37	0.505
Category of rainfall	2	3.45	0.179	2.91	0.234	2.81	0.245
TDS	1	1.85	0.174	0.66	0.416	0.01	0.927
Habitat	2	3.18	0.204	2.88	0.237	4.01	0.135
Site within a habitat	2	6.65	0.036*	5.27	0.072	1.28	0.526
Category of rainfall	2	2.89	0.236	2.47	0.290	3.75	0.153
Turbidity	1	0.04	0.846	2.27	0.132	0.08	0.781
Habitat	2	4.79	0.091	2.10	0.350	5.12	0.077
Site within a habitat	2	5.76	0.056	0.26	0.878	1.07	0.586
Category of rainfall	2	3.58	0.167	1.61	0.448	2.90	0.235

* P < 0.05, "-" Not applicable