Table 2.

Two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the severity and frequency of disturbance on the natural log transformed number of Ecklonia recruits that recruited in the first year (Yr 1 recruits) and the second year (Yr 2 recruits) at 6, 12 and 18 months post disturbance. p values < 0.05 are in bold.

Source	df	Yr 1 recruits 6, 12, 18 months			Yr 2 recruits 18 months
		MS	F-ratio	p	MS	F-ratio	p
Severity (S)	1	1.287	5.450	0.026	0.006	0.081	0.778
Frequency (F)	3	0.541	2.293	0.097	0.117	1.676	0.192
S*F	3	1.673	7.084	0.001	0.057	0.821	0.492
Error	32	0.236			0.070
Time (T)	2	23.68	117.9	< 0.001
T*S	2	0.077	0.384	0.571
T*F	2	0.583	2.907	0.040
T*S*F	2	0.019	0.093	0.976
Error	32	0.201