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For the ANOVAs, we used the means because individual mosquito responses were not independent, and an ANOVA model with microcosm nested within the fixed effects of leaf litter and container size did not work because some microcosms had no mosquito emergence.
Surrogate soil (100 mg/microcosm) and spores (about 2 × 10 4per gram of soil) were placed together into the bottles.
The experimental design consisted of twenty-four microcosms, each of which fell into four different scale types: 1) a "base" size (B), which has been used in microcosm studies of treehole mosquitoes [ 16 ] , [ 31 ] , [ 33 ] , 2) "constant width" (CW), using the same size container and doubling the depth, 3) "constant depth" (CD), using the same depth as the base, but doubling the width, and 4) "constant shape" (CS), which doubles both the width and depth of the base treatment (Table 2).
In the English-speaking dictionary microcosm The Oxford Thesaurus (1991), has clearly stolen a march over all its rivals in terms of size, structure, and depth of treatment.
The Bushes are a microcosm of the transformation of Republican politics from Northeastern elitism to Western populism.