Zoological Studies

Table 3 Summary of the results from mixed-model PERMANOVAs

From: Tidal variation in fish assemblages and trophic structures in tropical Indo-Pacific seagrass beds

		Algal herbivore (AL)			Seagrass herbivore (SG)			Detritivore (DT)
Source	df	MS	Pseudo F	p value*	MS	Pseudo F	p value*	MS	Pseudo F	p value*
Site (S)	2	58.42	51.26	0.001	850.07	9.44	0.001	9.03	11.53	0.001
Month (M)	2	0.19	0.17	0.849	13.13	0.15	0.869	0.28	0.36	0.710
Tide (T)	1	18.57	16.29	0.001	848.07	9.42	0.003	5.41	6.90	0.019
S × M	4	0.35	0.30	0.887	52.07	0.58	0.707	0.41	0.52	0.722
S × T	2	8.62	7.56	0.004	392.52	4.36	0.009	15.45	19.72	0.001
M × T	2	0.31	0.27	0.772	14.69	0.16	0.871	0.69	0.88	0.444
S × M × T	4	1.11	0.97	0.453	73.46	0.82	0.561	0.66	0.84	0.495
Residual	36	1.14			90.02			0.78
Total	53
		Small carnivore (SC)			Large carnivore (LC)			Piscivore (PS)
Source	df	MS	Pseudo F	p value*	MS	Pseudo F	p value*	MS	Pseudo F	p value*
Site (S)	2	29554	166.2	0.001	189.9	171.3	0.001	40.16	78.12	0.001
Month (M)	2	61.56	0.346	0.709	0.761	0.686	0.542	0.47	0.92	0.419
Tide (T)	1	188.9	1.063	0.314	185.4	167.2	0.001	10.14	19.73	0.003
S × M	4	21.28	0.12	0.981	0.533	0.481	0.743	0.51	0.98	0.448
S × T	2	482	2.711	0.071	38.98	35.16	0.001	1.32	2.58	0.103
M × T	2	9.852	0.055	0.944	1.233	1.112	0.339	0.21	0.42	0.661
S × M × T	4	209.8	1.18	0.332	0.476	0.43	0.801	0.38	0.73	0.549
Residual	36	177.8			1.109			0.51
Total	53

On the densities of six fish feeding groups collected in the seagrass beds at the Dongsha Island. Statistically significant values (p < 0.05) are highlighted in bold font. *p values are all permutational.

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