Table 1: Statistical or analytical methods used to verify experimental results.

Entry Hypothesis Method a Cells and thalli normality size Lilliefors test b Equality of error variances Levene test c Length/width correlation on each of the three solid media Pillai’s Trace, Wilks’ Lambda, Hotelling’s Trace, Roy’s Largest Root with Bonferroni correction, Mauchly’s test, Levene’s test, Tukey’s test, and Games-Howell’s test d Chlorophyll-a correlation on each of the three solid media Pillai’s Trace, Wilks’Lambda, Hotelling’s Trace, Roy’s Largest Root with Bonferroni correction, Mauchly’s test, Levene’s test, Tukey’s test, and Games-Howell’s test