Ecological Archives E091-060-A2

Hamish S. Greig and Scott A. Wissinger. 2010. Reinforcing abiotic and biotic time constraints facilitate the broad distribution of a generalist with fixed traits. Ecology 91:836–846.

Appendix B. MANOVA and univariate ANOVAs testing the effect of nonconsumptive Dytiscus beetle presence and caddisfly sex on three measures of the body size at emergence of Asynarchus caddisflies reared from third instar larvae in mesocosms. Tank means of males and females were treated replicates and values in parentheses are standard errors.

a) Multivariate test

Source of variation

Numerator

Denominator

Pillai trace

F

P

df

df

Beetle

3

22

0.081

0.30

0.783

Sex

3

22

0.934

109

<0.0001

Beetle × sex

3

22

0.120

0.40

0.855

 

 

 

 

 

 

b) Univariate tests

 

Mean (SE)

 

 

 

Total mass (mg)

Thorax mass (mg)

Wing length (mm)

 

 

Male

5.20 (0.13)

2.62 (0.06)

12.5 (0.12)

 

 

Female

7.89 (0.27)

3.16 (0.09)

10.9 (0.14)

 

 

P

<0.0001

<0.0001

<0.0001

 

 


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