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Table 3

Summary (p-values) of ANOVAS comparing leaf decay and invertebrate parameters in mesh bag samples, as well as periphyton parameters, on nutrient diffusing substrates between nutrient and flow treatments; samples were taken 5 (round 1) and 4 (round 2) days after the cessation of the three days long flow event; significant effects (p < 0.05) are marked in bold, p-values < 0.1 are marked in italics.

Dependent variable Flow increase Ranking Nutrients Ranking Flow x nutrients Type of interaction
Leaf litter decomposition rate
   Coarse mesh bags (k) 0.062 Control < flood 0.295   0.175  
   Fine mesh bags (k) 0.818   0.034 Control < nutrients 0.058  
   Coarse-fine (k) 0.221   0.580   0.052  
Drift
   Number of drifting individuals 0.311   0.006 Control < nutrients 0.507  
Invertebrates in coarse mesh bags
   Total invertebrate density 0.094 Control < flood 0.353   0.774  
   Taxon richness 0.274   0.778   0.981  
   EPT richness 0.422   0.880   0.880  
   Shannon-Wiener diversity 0.361   0.999   0.896  
   % rheophile 0.955   0.074 Nutrients < control 0.264  
   Proportion of grazers/scrapers 0.981   0.747   0.973  
   Proportion of shredders 0.883   0.027 Nutrients < control 0.704  
   Proportion of gathering collectors 0.317   0.264   0.703  
   Proportion of predators 0.535   0.044 Control < nutrients 0.480  
Periphyton
   Total Chl a 0.002 Control < flood <0.001 Control < nutrients 0.014 Antagonistic
   Cyanobacteria (Chl a) 0.076 Control < flood 0.003 Control < nutrients <0.001 Antagonistic
   Diatoms (Chl a) 0.001 Control < flood <0.001 Control < nutrients <0.001 Antagonistic
   Green algae (Chl a) 0.093 Control < flood <0.001 Control < nutrients 0.523  
   Biovolume Cyanobacteria 0.349   0.083 Control < nutrients 0.610  
   Biovolume green algae 0.562   0.145   0.540  
   Biovolume diatoms 0.658   0.054 Control < nutrients 0.116  
   Total biovolume 0.819   0.114   0.305  
   Taxon richness 0.384   0.793   0.740  

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