A century of morphological variation in Cyprinidae fishes

BMC Ecology

Table 3 Results from family level MANCOVA model assessing relationships between morphological variables and body size, hydrology, sex, year, and interactions for five species

Family	Effect	Variance explained	F	d.f.	P
Cyprinidae	Species	0.70	2.8	72, 2004	<0.001
	Body size	0.45	22.7	18, 498	<0.001
	Sex	0.11	3.6	18, 498	<0.001
	Year	0.08	2.4	18, 498	<0.001
	Discharge mean	0.11	3.2	18, 498	<0.001
	Discharge CV	0.08	2.3	18, 498	<0.001
	Body size * species	0.10	2.8	72, 2004	<0.001
	Sex * species	0.06	1.7	72, 2004	<0.001
	Year * species	0.11	3.4	72, 2004	<0.001
	Discharge mean * species	0.08	2.5	72, 2004	<0.001
	Discharge CV * species	0.09	2.6	72, 2004	<0.001

See Table 4 for taxon specific analyses and Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 for visualizations of shape changes in individual species

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