highly significantp = 0.0019
In LIS, we found a highly significant difference in salinity between restricted vs. reference sites (p = 0.0019; t 40 = 3.33), but not for temperature (p = 0.1588; t 40 = −1.44) or dissolved oxygen (p = 0.3821; t 40 = −0.88), which also mirrored results in the GOM (salinity: p<0.0001, t 40 = 11.89; temperature: p = 0.1409, t 40 = −1.50; dissolved oxygen: p = 0.2253, t 40 = −1.23; Table 2 ).