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Jon D. Witman, Robert W. Lamb, and Jarrett E. K. Byrnes. 2015. Towards an integration of scale and complexity in marine ecology. Ecological Monographs 85:475–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2265.1

Appendix E. Results of factorial significance tests between year blocks for all metrics analyzed.

Table E1. Chi-square likelihood ratio test results using type-II model regression for comparisons of seven metrics ofexperimental scale and complexity between experiments carried out in different decades. P < 0.05 considered significant.

LR Chisq

df

Pr(>Chisq)

Spatial grain

25.764

5

<.001

Spatial extent

10.874

5

0.054

Global spatial extent

9.738

5

0.083

Duration

2.357

5

0.798

Species

29.643

5

<.001

Factors

14.944

5

0.011

Treatment combinations

10.455

5

0.063


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