Results
Figure 1.
Biovolume of Food vs Thoracic Beats in D. magna One Way Analysis of VarianceThursday, February 02, 2006, 4:26:10 PM Group Name N MissingMeanStd DevSEM Mean TB High Micro Mean TB Low Micro Mean TB High Nano Mean TB Low Nano The differences in the mean values among the treatment groups are not great enough to exclude the possibility that the difference is due to random sampling variability; there is not a statistically significant difference (P = 0.140). Table 1 Though there is no significant difference between the Biovolume level of food and the number of thoracic beats in D. magna, there was a trend observed where the Daphnia performed a greater number of thoracic beats at the lower concentrations of food. Also, there was a trend where the number of thoracic beats was greater when in concentrations of Nanocloropsys.
Figure 2. Post Abdominal Rejection vs Food Concentration for D. magna
One Way Analysis of VarianceTuesday, February 07, 2006, 1:57:21 PM Data source: Nanno & MC Data in zool811 Mic vs TB Normality Test:Failed(P < 0.050) Kruskal-Wallis One Way Analysis of Variance on RanksTuesday, February 07, 2006, 1:57:21 PM Data source: Nanno & MC Data in zool811 Mic vs TB GroupN Missing Median 25% 75% Micro PAR lo Micro PAR hi Nanno PAR lo Nanno PAR hi H = with 3 degrees of freedom. (P = 0.425) The differences in the median values among the treatment groups are not great enough to exclude the possibility that the difference is due to random sampling variability; there is not a statistically significant difference (P = 0.425)
Post Abdominal Rejection at Low and High Food Concentrations There is no significance between the post abdominal reflexes (PAR) at the food concentrations tested, however, one allegedly present trend was noted: there were fewer PAR’s in the low concentrated substrates.
One Way Analysis of VarianceThursday, February 02, 2006, 4:25:23 PM Kruskal-Wallis One Way Analysis of Variance on RanksThursday, February 02, 2006, 4:25:23 PM Data source: Data 1 in ComparisonTBHIGHLOW GroupN Missing Median 25% 75% Mean TB High Micro Mean TB Low Micro Mean TB High Nano Mean TB Low Nano H The differences in the median values among the treatment groups are not great enough to exclude the possibility that the difference is due to random sampling variability; there is not a statistically significant difference (P = 0.139)
t-testThursday, February 02, 2006, 4:23:48 PM Mann-Whitney Rank Sum TestThursday, February 02, 2006, 4:23:48 PM Data source: Data 1 in ComparisonTBHIGHLOW GroupN Missing Median 25% 75% Mean TB Low Micro Mean TB Low Nano T = n(small)= 4 n(big)= 4 P(est.)= P(exact)= The difference in the median values between the two groups is not great enough to exclude the possibility that the difference is due to random sampling variability; there is not a statistically significant difference (P = 0.886)
t-testThursday, February 02, 2006, 4:22:37 PM Group Name N MissingMeanStd DevSEM Mean TB High Micro Mean TB High Nano Difference t = with 6 degrees of freedom. (P = 0.081) 95 percent confidence interval for difference of means: to The difference in the mean values of the two groups is not great enough to reject the possibility that the difference is due to random sampling variability. There is not a statistically significant difference between the input groups (P = 0.081).