treatment groups were significantly different during weeks 6 through 12 (Tukey's HSD post hoc

test, p < 0.0001 for all comparisons). Because body size of turtles in each group differed after

week 0, intake was corrected for BM and re-analyzed as mass-specific intake.

 The magnitude but not the overall pattern of mass-specific intake of R turtles differed from

that of AL turtles for the duration of the experiment, and the magnitude and overall pattern of

mass-specific intake of R-AL turtles was comparable to that of R turtles during weeks 1-5 and

comparable to that of AL turtles during weeks 6-12. Repeated measures ANOVA of mass-

specific intake (Table 2-2) revealed no significant linear interaction between time and treatment

group (p > 0.05 for time treatment interactions using tests of within-subjects contrasts in

repeated measures ANOVA) during either weeks 1 through 5 or weeks 6 through 12. However,

there was a significant linear effect of time on mass-specific intake during weeks 1 through 5 and

during weeks 6 through 12, as demonstrated by the decrease in mass-specific intake for turtles in

all treatment groups during these two time intervals (Fig. 2-1). The pattern of mass-specific

intake of AL turtles was significantly different from those of R and R-AL turtles during weeks 1

through 5 (Tukey's HSD post hoc test, p < 0.0001 for both comparisons), and the pattern of

mass-specific intake of R turtles was significantly different from those of AL and R-AL turtles

during weeks 6 through 12 (Tukey's HSD post hoc test, p < 0.0001 for both comparisons).

 Body size (BM and CL) in week 0 (during which all turtles were feeding ad libitum) was

similar for all three treatment groups (ANOVA, F2,112 = 0.992, p = 0.374 for BM; F2,112 = 1.109,

p = 0.333 for CL) Repeated measures ANOVA of body size during weeks 0 through 5 and

during weeks 6 through 12 revealed significant time and treatment effects as well as significant

interactions between time and treatment group (Table 2-3). The pattern of body size (both BM

and CL) of AL turtles was significantly different from those of R and R-AL turtles during weeks