Table 1. F- and P-values on the effect of time (2, 10, 20 and 44 weeks), temperature (temp; 10, 15, 20°C) and treatment (tr; control, reduced litter quality and glucose addition) of the density of ten pooled oribatid mite groups analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance.
Brachychthoniidae | Enarthronota | Rhysotritia | Desmonomata | ||||||
df | F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | |
between subject effects | |||||||||
temp | 2,36 | 3.72 | 0.0340 | 0.48 | 0.6241 | 4.77 | 0.0145 | 1.92 | 0.1612 |
tr | 2,36 | 0.42 | 0.0551 | 0.33 | 0.7239 | 8.29 | 0.0011 | 2.35 | 0.1100 |
temp x tr | 4,36 | 3.92 | 0.0097 | 0.19 | 0.9430 | 0.72 | 0.5850 | 1.26 | 0.3051 |
within subject effects | |||||||||
time | 3,108 | 35.08 | <0.0001 | 33.94 | <0.0001 | 3.70 | 0.0139 | 3.84 | 0.0118 |
time x temp | 6,108 | 2.95 | 0.0105 | 2.01 | 0.0711 | 1.34 | 0.2439 | 3.79 | 0.0018 |
time x tr | 6,108 | 0.48 | 0.8194 | 3.02 | 0.0091 | 1.45 | 0.2014 | 2.90 | 0.0116 |
time x temp x tr | 12,108 | 1.36 | 0.1968 | 1.11 | 0.3569 | 0.84 | 0.6063 | 1.20 | 0.2953 |
Significant effects are given in bold.