Feeding Choice and the Fate of Organic Materials Consumed by Sesarma Crabs Perisesarma bidens (De Haan) When Offered Different Diets

Table 1

MANOVA results for the effects of processing (before and after gut) and diets (leaves, alagae, and propagule) on composition of nutrients (total carbon and nitrogen contents).

	df	MS	F
	%Total carbon
Processing	1	186.8889	758.4947∗∗∗
Diet	2	417.1565	1693.043∗∗∗
processing∗Diet	2	40.92527	166.0966∗∗∗
Residual	18
	%Total nitrogen
Processing	1	0.038272	1.733518NS
Diet	2	1.060039	48.01384∗∗∗
processing∗Diet	2	3.666939	166.0918∗∗∗
Residual	18
	C/N ratio
Processing	1	441.5401	4.154553NS
Diet	2	2288.132	21.52956∗∗∗
processing∗Diet	2	3920.505	36.88894∗∗∗
Residual	18

NS = not significant, ^∗𝑃<.05,^∗∗𝑃<.01,^∗∗∗𝑃<.001; C/N = Carbon to nitrogen ratio.