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Table 2 Summary of multivariate analyses (RDA and partial RDA) of seasonal and weather-dependent changes in the composition of male chironomid assemblages in 2014–2015

From: Seasonality and weather conditions jointly drive flight activity patterns of aquatic and terrestrial chironomids

Model

Aquatic species

Terrestrial species

AEV

Pseudo-F

P

AEV

Pseudo-F

P

Month

67.3%

9.9

0.0001

57.1%

6.3

0.0001

Humidity (H)

16.0%

6.0

0.0005

20.7%

7.3

0.0006

Temperature (T)

23.1%

8.8

0.0001

2.0%

1.5

0.23

Wind speed (W)

7.6%

3.2

0.012

12.7%

4.5

0.009

Cloud cover (C)

3.1%

1.8

0.10

13.4%

4.7

0.007

Air pressure

0.9%

1.2

0.26

0.1%

1.0

0.38

T + TH regime

35.8%

8.3

0.0001

T + H

35.7%

8.2

0.0001

H + TH regime

33.2%

7.5

0.0001

20.7%

4.1

0.0002

T + H + Wa

38.8%

6.5

0.0001

T + H + W (month)

0%

1.0

0.55

H + W + Cb

37.3%

5.8

0.0002

H + W + C (month)

18.7%

2.4

0.038

  1. Only species with at least five occurrences included. Significant results (P < 0.05) in italics. Covariates used in partial RDA given in parentheses. AEV adjusted explained variation of the model, TH regime one of the two temperature-humidity regimes; see “Methods” for details
  2. a, bShown in Fig. 4