Table 3. Results of mixed effects model analyses for log-transformed abundance and richness of ciliates and predatory microfauna with “bromeliad” treated as a random effect.
| Ciliates: Abundance | Richness | Predatory microfauna:Abundance | Richness | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ndf | ddf | F | P | F | P | ddf | F | P | F | P | |
| Sorter | 1 | 115 | 10.857 | 0.001 | 6.385 | 0.013 | 136 | 0.002 | 0.964 | 0.082 | 0.775 |
| Canopy openness | 1 | 22 | 2.412 | 0.135 | 1.422 | 0.246 | 23 | 0.365 | 0.552 | 0.132 | 0.720 |
| Trophic treatment + | 2 | 22 | 87.189 | <0.001 | 3.594 | 0.045 | 23 | 41.123 | <0.001 | 20.206 | <0.001 |
| Temperature | 1 | 115 | 5.461 | 0.021 | 0.645 | 0.423 | 136 | 0.680 | 0.411 | 0.450 | 0.504 |
| Dispersal ++ | 2 | 115 | 0.733 | 0.483 | 2.692 | 0.072 | 136 | 0.001 | 0.999 | 0.455 | 0.635 |
+Trophic treatment levels: control, predator addition and resource addition.
++Dispersal levels: control, local dispersal and regional dispersal, P-values<0.05 are printed in bold. ndf = numerator degrees of freedom, ddf = denumerator degrees of freedom