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. 2016 Apr 22;79(1):113–125. doi: 10.1007/s00027-016-0483-2

Table 3.

The effects of chub age (A), site (S; invaded versus uninvaded) and year (Y; 2008 vs 2011; Rother and Chad Brook only) on chub fork length (L), and mass (M)

Model River Term a (±SE) Test statistic p d.f. R 2 adj
L = aA + aS + aY Rother Full model 32.43 <0.001 31 75.3 %
A 31.06 (±3.68) 8.44 <0.001
S 8.67 (±20.48) 0.42 0.675
Y −8.80 (±8.40) −1.05 0.303
L = aA + aS + aY Chad Brook Full model 55.80 <0.001 35 82.5 %
A 28.63 (±3.16) 9.06 <0.001
S −39.60 (±10.90) −3.63 <0.001
Y 6.76 (±4.38) 4.38 0.133
L = aA + aS Cherwell Full model 507.30 <0.001 203 83.3 %
A 32.57 (±1.02) 31.83 <0.001
S −0.71 (±3.19) 0.22 0.824
L = aA + aS Evenlode Full model 975.90 <0.001 299 86.7 %
A 36.48 (±1.01) 36.09 <0.001
S −41.16 (±3.32) −12.40 <0.001
M = aA + aS + aY Rother Full model 23.22 <0.001 31 68.4 %
A 135.43 (±19.46) 6.96 <0.001
S 158.98 (±108.27) 1.47 0.153
Y −46.39 (±44.39) −1.05 0.305
M = aA + aS + aY Chad Brook Full model 55.60 <0.001 35 82.4 %
A 96.35 (±11.49) 8.38 <0.001
S −171.11 (±39.64) −4.32 <0.001
Y −4.08 (±15.94) −0.26 0.800
N = aL + aS + aY Rother Full model 3.73 0.023 31 20.9 %
L 0.002 (±0.002) 0.72 0.479
S −0.457 (±0.354) −1.29 0.208
Y 0.138 (±0.188) 0.73 0.469
N = aL + aS + aY Chad Brook Full model 3.60 0.024 35 18.2 %
L 0.005 (±0.003) 1.60 0.119
S 0.634 (±0.298) 2.13 0.041
Y −0.199 (±0.136) −1.47 0.151

We also tested the effects of chub fork length, site, and year on chub baseline corrected δ15N (N) for the Rother and Chad Brook. Test statistics were F and t for full model and individual terms respectively