Table 1.
Summary of ANOVAs testing for the effects of temperature, nZnO and subpopulation on life history and physiology of D. magna
| df | Temperature (T) | nZnO (Zn) | Subpopulation (S) | T × Zn | T × S | Zn × S | T × Zn × S | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | F | p | ||
| Zn concentration | 1, 36 | 0.00 | .956 | 147.13 | <.0001 | 1.49 | .230 | 36.98 | <.0001 | 0.69 | .411 | 13.36 | <.01 | 4.86 | <.05 |
| Intrinsic growth rate | 1, 36 | 0.40 | .532 | 24.78 | <.0001 | 0.04 | .845 | 3.19 | .083 | 11.17 | <.01 | 0.52 | .474 | 3.75 | .061 |
| RNA:DNA | 1, 36 | 28.01 | <.0001 | 2.63 | .114 | 0.84 | .364 | 12.84 | <.01 | 5.12 | <.05 | 10.20 | <.01 | 8.29 | <.05 |
| Sugar content | 1, 36 | 4.24 | <.05 | 5.11 | <.05 | 3.62 | .065 | 4.18 | <.05 | 1.09 | .302 | 0.42 | .523 | 0.39 | .537 |
| Fat content | 1, 36 | 1.95 | .171 | 3.65 | .064 | 0.20 | .657 | 4.40 | <.05 | 0.07 | .786 | 0.00 | .997 | 0.07 | .791 |
| Protein content | 1, 36 | 1.97 | .169 | 0.44 | .513 | 4.62 | <.05 | 0.37 | .548 | 7.73 | <.05 | 0.71 | .403 | 4.91 | <.05 |
| MT‐a | 1, 36 | 0.89 | .767 | 0.68 | .415 | 0.12 | .736 | 1.80 | .188 | 2.91 | .097 | 0.66 | .423 | 2.01 | .165 |
| MT‐b | 1, 36 | 0.42 | .522 | 41.10 | <.0001 | 0.12 | .729 | 6.11 | <.05 | 1.11 | .293 | 1.76 | .193 | 1.37 | .249 |
Significant p‐values are marked in bold. Significance levels are not corrected for multiple testing. Of the 56 p‐values (across eight ANOVAs), one would expect to erroneously assign significance in 2.8 cases by chance alone (assuming α = 0.05).