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

BMC Ecology

Table 3 Hierarchical linear mixed models (LMM) analysis of photosynthetic performance

Metric of bleaching response	Day after application of stress	Difference between high- and low-\( \mu ^{\prime}_{{S,m}} \) groups	p value
F _v/F _m (normalized to initial values)	0	0.0034	0.92
	2	0.054	0.074
	4	0.10	0.013
	6	0.15	0.011
Q _m	0	−0.057	0.22
	2	−0.12	0.012
	4	−0.19	0.003
	6	−0.25	0.002

Results of marginal analysis of the photosynthetic performance (F _v /F _m and Q _m) 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

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