Appendix B. ANOVAs testing the effects of transect, tidal elevation, and species of propagule on the mean proportion of marked propagules that were relocated after two or four weeks.
ANOVA examining the influence of transect (Transect: BM, PL, or MS), tidal elevation (Elevation: high, mid, or low), and species of propagule (Species: Avicennia, Laguncularia, or Rhizophora) on the mean proportions of marked propagules relocated two and four weeks after being deposited at a particular release point. Analysis I compared recovery of all three species’ propagules over two-week periods, while Analysis II compared recovery of Avicennia and Rhizophora over the entire four-week period of monitoring. See text for details. Analyses were mixed-model with transect treated as a random factor, and elevation and species as fixed factors. Proportions were arcsine transformed prior to analysis.
Analysis I |
Analysis II |
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Source of variation |
df |
MS |
F |
P |
MS |
F |
P |
|
Transect (T) |
2 |
45.406 |
0.357 |
0.701 |
86.921 |
0.438 |
0.649 |
|
Elevation (E) |
2 |
461.239 |
1.428 |
0.340 |
217.242 |
0.959 |
0.457 |
|
Species (S) |
2, 1† |
8559.227 |
168.779 |
<0.001 |
14547.888 |
93.469 |
0.011 |
|
T × E |
4 |
295.011 |
2.323 |
0.068 |
226.534 |
1.141 |
0.353 |
|
T × S |
4, 2† |
50.713 |
0.399 |
0.808 |
155.644 |
0.784 |
0.464 |
|
E × S |
4, 2† |
64.222 |
0.286 |
0.879 |
250.560 |
0.772 |
0.521 |
|
T × E × S |
8, 4† |
224.804 |
1.770 |
0.104 |
324.617 |
1.634 |
0.187 |
|
Error |
54, 36† |
127.005 |
198.624 |
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† df for Analyses I and II, respectively.