Experimental Aphid Distance x Trophic Treatment Trial

Do trophic level treatment, distance between aphid colonies, and distance from ant mound affect aphid per capita growth?

Per capita growth rates were calculated across the entire experiment.

## Analysis of Deviance Table (Type II Wald chisquare tests)
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## Response: popgrowth
##                      Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq)    
## Distance.treatment  0.0045  1  0.9463725    
## Trophic.treatment   5.5372  2  0.0627505 .  
## Ant.mound.distance 12.6923  1  0.0003672 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

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Ant tending rates (total ants across experiment)

Depend on distance treatment and total number of aphids?

## Analysis of Deviance Table (Type II Wald chisquare tests)
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## Response: tot.ants
##                              Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq)   
## Distance.treatment          0.3541  1    0.55182   
## tot.aphs                    1.0326  1    0.30955   
## Distance.treatment:tot.aphs 9.7226  1    0.00182 **
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Depend on distance from ant mound and total number of aphids?

## Analysis of Deviance Table (Type II Wald chisquare tests)
## 
## Response: tot.ants
##                              Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq)  
## Ant.mound.distance          1.0817  1    0.29831  
## tot.aphs                    3.3330  1    0.06790 .
## Ant.mound.distance:tot.aphs 3.6199  1    0.05709 .
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

## Analysis of Deviance Table (Type II Wald chisquare tests)
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## Response: tot.ants
##                     Chisq Df Pr(>Chisq)  
## Ant.mound.distance 6.0175  1    0.01416 *
## tot.aphs           0.1949  1    0.65889  
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1