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. 2012 Jan 13;7(1):e30167. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030167

Table 1. Analysis of variance testing the effects of temperature and experimental conditions on chlorophyll content, photosynthesis and respiration of Turbinaria reniformis and Stylophora pistillata.

Parameter Species Factor DF F p
Chlorophyll (mg cm−2) Turbinaria Temperature 1,30 5.5 < 0.05
Experiment 2,30 13 < 0.001
Temp x Experiment 2,30 13.9 < 0.05
Stylophora Temperature 1,30 0.11 0.92
Experiment 2,30 11 <0.001
Temp x Experiment 2,30 1.2 0.29
Photosynthesis ( µmol O2 cm−2 h−1) Turbinaria Temperature 1,30 19 < 0.05
Experiment 2,30 14 < 0.001
Temp x Experiment 2,30 3.1 0.06
Stylophora Temperature 1,30 67 <0.001
Experiment 2,30 67 <0.001
Temp x Experiment 2,30 16 <0.001
Respiration ( µmol O2 cm−2 h−1) Turbinaria Temperature 1,30 2.2 0.15
Experiment 2,30 10.3 < 0.001
Temp x Experiment 2,30 2.1 0.14
Stylophora Temperature 1,30 1.0 0.32
Experiment 2,30 8.2 <0.01
Temp x Experiment 2,30 2.3 0.12

DF denotes degrees of freedom for each effect. Temperature refers to the experimental temperature treatment (two levels: 26°C and 32°C) and experiment refers to the different light and feeding treatments (three levels: low light fed, low light unfed, high light unfed).