Research Article
The Impacts of Ex Situ Transplantation on the Physiology of the Taiwanese Reef-Building Coral Seriatopora hystrix
Table 2
Two-way, repeated-measures ANOVA of physiological parameter data. Four physiological response variables were measured both in situ and ex situ (after three weeks of acclimation and one week of experimentation) in corals from either Houbihu (HBH) or Houwan (HWN). “Stab”: stable temperature treatment (TT). “Var”: variable TT. Letters trailing treatment groups in the “Post hoc tests” column represent Tukey’s honestly significant difference groupings (). Site of origin (SO) comparisons were conducted across all data, regardless of TT and sampling time and so do not represent the in situ SO differences, whose values were compared with Student’s -tests or Wilcoxon rank-sum tests and are discussed in the text and displayed in Figures 2(a), 2(d), 2(g), and 2(j). “Time” corresponds to the ex situ versus in situ comparison, as there was a four-week gap between the two sampling times. Time × SO × TT test statistics are not shown.
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