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. 2014 Sep 4;14:187. doi: 10.1186/s12862-014-0187-y

Table 2.

Differences in thermal tolerance among the species and populations of the A. brunneus complex

A) General ANOVA
Comparison Sum of squares d.f. Quadratic mean F Sig. Power
UTL species 2.1 2 1.0 0.46 0.6 0.12
population 72.1 4 18.0 27.20 <0.001 1.00
LTL species 77.8 2 38.9 10.90 <0.001 0.99
population 113.8 4 28.4 9.87 <0.001 1.00
B) post-hoc Tukey
c.i. (95 %)
Comparison sp (I) sp (J) Mean difference (I-J) Std.e. Sig. Lower limit Upper limit
UTL species 1 2 −0.42 0.50 0.7 −1.63 0.79
3 0.04 0.57 1.0 −1.33 1.41
2 3 0.46 0.58 0.7 −0.94 1.86
population 1 2 3.69 0.37 <0.001 2.62 4.75
3 4 1.37 0.47 <0.05 0.04 2.69
LTL species 1 2 −2.96 0.65 < 0.001 −4.53 −1.40
3 −1.80 0.69 <0.05 −3.47 −0.13
2 3 1.16 0.73 0.26 −0.61 2.94
population 1 2 2.70 0.76 <0.01 0.52 4.87
3 4 0.08 10.96 1.0 −3.11 3.14

In “comparison”, “species” refer to the comparison of the three species (pooling the two populations of A. ramblae and A. brunneus respectively; 1, A. brunneus; 2, A. ramblae; 3, A. rufulus); “population” refers to the comparison of the five populations (1, A. brunneus from south Spain, Cádiz; 2, A. brunneus from northeast Spain, Girona; 3, A. ramblae from southeast Spain, Murcia; 4, A. ramblae from central Morocco, Tinghir). UTL, upper thermal limit; LTL, lower thermal limit; d.f., degrees of freedom; Sig., significance; Std.e, standard error; c.i. confidence interval.