Table 2. ANOVA results for macrofaunal density, biomass and secondary production comparing BEN, PAE and VIB estuaries.
| Density | Biomass | Secondary production | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source | df | MS | F | p | MS | F | p | MS | F | p |
| H | 1 | 311,266.70 | 0.253 | 0.66 | 0.20 | 0.369 | 0.61 | 6.43 | 0.421 | 0.58 |
| E | 2 | 689,817.25 | 19.504 | 0.02* | 0.32 | 4.388 | 0.13 | 8.95 | 5.596 | 0.10 |
| H × E | 2 | 1,230,614.84 | 23.040 | 0.02* | 0.54 | 20.178 | 0.02* | 15.29 | 26.162 | 0.01* |
| S(E) | 3 | 35,368.39 | 1.372 | 0.30 | 0.07 | 3.427 | 0.052 | 1.60 | 2.982 | 0.07 |
| P(S(E)) | 12 | 25,774.72 | 4.120 | <0.0001* | 0.02 | 1.400 | 0.19 | 0.54 | 1.616 | 0.11 |
| H × S(E) | 3 | 53,413.02 | 1.431 | 0.28 | 0.03 | 1.061 | 0.40 | 0.58 | 0.990 | 0.43 |
| H × P(S(E)) | 12 | 37,327.63 | 5.967 | <0.0001* | 0.03 | 1.682 | 0.09 | 0.59 | 1.779 | 0.07 |
| Residual | 72 | 6,255.48 | 0.01 | 0.33 | ||||||
Notes.
- H
- habitat
- E
- estuary
- S
- site
- P
- plot
- df
- degrees of freedom
- MS
- mean square
*
Significant values.