Temporal changes in species interactions in simple aquatic bacterial communities

BMC Ecology

Table 1 Effects of consumer species and test species identity on test species instantaneous maximum growth rates (r)

Factor	df	F	p
Within subject effects
Time	9	60.5	<0.001
Time × Test sp.	18	6.9	<0.001
Time × Consumer sp.	9	29.8	<0.001
Time × Test sp. × Consumer sp.	18	12.8	<0.001
Error	108
Between subjects effects
Consumer species	2	100.0	<0.001
Test species	1	1426.6	<0.001
Consumer sp. × Test sp.	2	294.3	<0.001
Error	12

“Consumer species” grew in the medium before filtering; “test species” grew in the filtered medium. Results from the factorial repeated measures ANOVA.

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