Controls and additive series
Group exercise: Read your stream control example, and decide on: (1) What is wrong with the design? (2) How you might fix it.
Scenario 1 A B C A B C Before After
Scenario 2 A BC D EF + pollutant - pollutant
What is the probability that the 3 “worst” streams are randomly assigned to the pollutant treatment? 3/6 * 2/5 * 1/4 = 2/40 or 5%
Scenario 3 A BC A BC BeforeAfter D EF D EF Before After + chemical in alkaline solution control
Scenario 4 A BC A BC BeforeAfter D EF D EF Before After + pollutant control
Scenario 5 ?
Insect abundance = m1 * width + m2 * dioxin + m3 * width*dioxin + Y-intercept (and error)
Summary of control types Which scenarios lacked: Control for initial conditions? Unmanipulated, contemporaneous control? Control for side effect of manipulation? Control for covariates? Control for non-target response?
BACI design Unmanipulated, contemporaneous control Initial conditions Eg. Scenario 3 BeforeAfter Before After + pollutant control Before After Control Impact
BACI design Unmanipulated, contemporaneous control Initial conditions BeforeAfter + pollutant control Before After Control Impact
Study SiteRoads Hiking trail Water Contour 100m ((10m) Major Roads Study Site Legend Kamloops Sicamous Kamloops Example of BACI design: Ernest Leupin’s study on forest fragments and birds
Sicamous Creek Research Forest
How can we analyze BACI designs? Randomized block? What is n? What is k? How many independent experimental units in total? A treatment x date ANOVA? BeforeAfter Before After + pollutant control ABCABC DEFDEF
How can we analyze BACI designs? Randomized block? A treatment x date ANOVA? BeforeAfter Before After + pollutant control ABCGHI What is n? What is k? How many independent experimental units in total? DEFJKL
How can we analyze BACI designs? Two separate ANOVAs / t-tests? BeforeAfter Before After + pollutant control Different?
How can we analyze BACI designs? Two separate ANOVAs / t-tests? ABC before after Y variable before after Impact sites
How can we analyze BACI designs? Need to have match the number of datapoints with the number of experimental units Need to take advantage of built-in control for stream identity
How can we analyze BACI designs? One solution: Use difference between before and after as the data! BeforeAfter Before After + pollutant control ABCABC DEFDEF Difference ABC DEF
Example: Additive series design for container mosquito larvae
Aedes albopictus invades N America from SE Asia in 1985, via used tire trade at Houston
Breeds in containers habitats (old tires, treeholes), like native species, Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus
Ranges overlap, potential for interspecific competition
Experimental design (“Additive series”) Juliano, S Species introduction and replacement amongst mosquitoes: interspecific resource competition or apparent competition? Ecology 79: Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus Substitutive or replacement series
Experimental design (Additive series) Juliano, S Species introduction and replacement amongst mosquitoes: interspecific resource competition or apparent competition? Ecology 79: Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus Addition design
Experimental design Juliano, S Species introduction and replacement amongst mosquitoes: interspecific resource competition or apparent competition? Ecology 79: Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus Can asses Aedes aegypti performance in these treatments
Hypotheses: Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus aeg albo Aedes aegypti response Albo has an effect on Aeg, and effect of 1 Albo = 1Aeg aeg albo Aedes aegypti response Albo has no effect on Aeg, so effect of 1 Albo = 0 Aeg aeg albo Aedes aegypti response Albo has an effect on Aeg, but effect of 1 Albo < 1Aeg
Hypotheses: Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus aeg albo Aedes aegypti response Albo has an effect on Aeg, and effect of 1 Albo = 1Aeg aeg albo Aedes aegypti response Albo has no effect on Aeg, so effect of 1 Albo = 0 Aeg aeg albo Aedes aegypti response Albo has an effect on Aeg, but effect of 1 Albo < 1Aeg
Results aeg albo Aedes aegypti survivorship ANOVA: treatment x food x tire(=block) Followed by t-tests (posthoc)