Table 7.

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

Source	df	Young		Old
		χ2	P	χ2	P
Alkalinity	1	3.64	0.056	0.00	0.958
Site within a habitat	2	3.43	0.179	5.16	0.235
Category of rainfall	2	3.43	0.180	2.90	0.958
Conductivity	1	5.38	0.020*	0.27	0.603
Site within a habitat	2	6.29	0.043*	4.50	0.105
Category of rainfall	2	2.69	0.259	2.92	0.232
D.O.	1	0.02	0.896	0.74	0.391
Site within a habitat	2	4.58	0.101	5.27	0.072
Category of rainfall	2	2.25	0.325	3.19	0.203
pH	1	1.23	0.268	1.17	0.279
Site within a habitat	2	4.28	0.118	5.64	0.059
Category of rainfall	2	1.88	0.392	2.28	0.319
Temperature	1	0.01	0.940	1.22	0.269
Site within a habitat	2	4.27	0.118	5.25	0.072
Category of rainfall	2	2.16	0.339	3.27	0.195
TDS	1	5.70	0.017*	0.31	0.580
Site within a habitat	2	6.50	0.039*	4.47	0.107
Category of rainfall	2	2.67	0.263	2.93	0.231

* P < 0.05