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. 2014 Jun 13;8(12):2445–2452. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.91

Table 2. Results of general linear models showing the effects of species richness, presence of tolerant species on biomass (sqrtOD600) in bacterial communities.

Factors Heavy metals
NaCl
Warming
  df SS F P df SS F P df SS F P
Sp. richness
 Fitted first 5 1.66 15.33 1.5 × 10−13 5 1.27 10.79 1.2 × 10−9 5 0.34 6.52 8.4 × 10−6
 Fitted second 4 1.59 18.34 1.3 × 10−13 4 0.67 7.08 1.7 × 10−5 4 0.13 3.13 0.015
                         
Tol. sp.
 Fitted first 4 1.01 9.27 2.8 × 10−8 7 1.06 6.43 4.2 × 10−7 4 0.42 9.99 1.2 × 10−7
 Fitted second 3 0.93 10.77 3.2 × 10−8 6 0.46 3.23 0.004 3 0.21 6.64 2.3 × 10−4
 Tol. sp *Sp. richness 6 0.54 4.43 2.5 × 10−4 5 0.38 3.32 6.1 × 10−3 7 0.13 1.82 0.08

Abbreviations: df, degrees of freedom; F, F-statistic; P, P-value; Sp. richness, species richness; SS, sum of squares; Tol. sp., number of tolerant species present.