Table 1.
Total number of settlers from three damselfish taxa to manipulated habitat patches in the field. The last column gives the mean total settlement to the two predator treatments as a percentage of the mean settlement to the three controls.
treatments without predators (no. of settlers) |
treatments with predators (no. of settlers) |
mean of treatments with predators ÷ mean of treatments without predators (as a %) | ||||
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BC | DC | NP | P− | P+ | ||
all damselfish | 247 | 229 | 260 | 190 | 182 | 76 |
P. nagasakiensis | 150 | 141 | 176 | 121 | 116 | 76 |
P. amboinensis | 34 | 20 | 25 | 14 | 16 | 57 |