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. 2012 Jun 27;7(6):e39590. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039590

Table 1. Summary of nested analyses of variance (ANOVAs) for green frog survival, mass, and developmental stage at the end of the study and Blanchard's cricket frog survival to, mass at, and days to metamorphosis.

Response Variable Treatment df Mean Square F p
Green Frog
Tadpole Survival Golf 2,3 0.2695 0.52 0.6386
Buffer(Golf) 3,24 0.5155 11.39 <0.0001
Tadpole Mass Covariate (Surv) 1 0.0001 0.01 0.9392
Golf 2,3 0.1848 0.69 0.5661
Buffer (Golf) 3,19 0.2670 9.96 0.0004
Gosner Stage Covariate (Surv) 1 34.89 0.01 0.9081
Golf 2,3 3006 0.38 0.7105
Buffer (Golf) 3,19 7830 3.07 0.0527
Blanchard's Cricket Frog
Survival to Metamorphosis Golf 1,2 0.6689 3.04 0.2232
Buffer(Golf) 2,16 0.2197 9.02 0.0024
Mass at Metamorphosis Covariate (Surv) 1 0.0231 1.09 0.3153
Golf 1,2 0.1238 1.16 0.3940
Buffer(Golf) 2,13 0.1067 5.03 0.0240
Days to Metamorphosis Covariate (Surv) 1 7.146 0.01 0.9299
Golf 1,2 55.76 0.02 0.8964
Buffer(Golf) 2,13 2567 2.89 0.0915

The covariate in the mass and stage/days to metamorphosis analyses is tadpole survival (Surv) for green frogs and survival (Surv) to metamorphosis for cricket frogs.