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Table 2 Hierarchical linear mixed models (LMM) analysis of photosynthetic performance

From: Skeletal light-scattering accelerates bleaching response in reef-building corals

Metric of bleaching response

\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \) Cluster

Rate (day-1)

p value, rate

CLA \( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \)—day interaction term p value

F v /F m

Low-\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \)

−0.0319

<0.001

0.016

High-\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \)

−0.0144

0.002

Q m

Low-\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \)

0.043

<0.001

0.013

High-\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \)

0.011

0.19

  1. Results of clustered longitudinal analysis (CLA) of high- and low-\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \) corals. Marginal analysis of F v /F m performed with values normalized to initial because the dynamic inversion of values (seen at day 4 in Fig. 1b; Additional file 3: Figure S3) makes marginal analysis insensitive to absolute differences over time