Research Article

Tradeoffs to Thermal Acclimation: Energetics and Reproduction of a Reef Coral with Heat Tolerant Symbiodinium Type-D

Table 5

The between-subject effects of repeated-measures multivariate ANOVA showing the significant effect of condition (bleached or unbleached in February 2006) on the symbiont densities and algal chlorophyll a content of Acropora millepora colonies. *indicate significant results.

MeasureS.S.dfMean squareFSig.

InterceptSymbiont densities206.511206.51229.40.000
Chlorophyll a 122068.331122068.33507.10.000
Lipids384.881384.88242.90.000
Bleaching conditionSymbiont densities10.72110.7211.90.004*
Chlorophyll a 1616.5211616.526.70.020*
Lipids2.8212.821.80.202

ErrorSymbiont densities13.50150.90
Chlorophyll a 3610.8015240.72
Lipids23.77151.58