Table 1 Two-way PERMANOVA results showing the effects of Sampling Site and Sample Type on differences in community structure based on taxonomic and phylogenetic dissimilarity metrics.

From: The travelling particles: community dynamics of biofilms on microplastics transferred along a salinity gradient

Resemblance

Sources of variation

d.f.

SS

pseudo F

padj.

Sq. root

Bray Curtis

Sampling Site

3

49681

6.165

0.0001

28.689

 

Sample Type

4

112540

9.170

0.0001

40.722

 

Sampling Site × Sample Type

12

99353

3.642

0.0001

41.910

 

Residuals

64

72201

  

33.588

 

Total

83

352300

   

Jaccard

Sampling Site

3

41148

5.738

0.0001

24.756

 

Sample Type

4

81602

8.551

0.0001

33.407

 

Sampling Site × Sample Type

12

97228

3.424

0.0001

37.995

 

Residuals

64

142380

  

47.167

 

Total

83

374690

   

Weighted UniFrac

Sampling Site

3

1.054

29.434

0.0001

0.135

 

Sample Type

4

2.400

50.254

0.0001

0.190

 

Sampling Site × Sample Type

12

1.192

8.321

0.0001

0.147

 

Residuals

64

0.764

  

0.109

 

Total

83

5.723

   

Unweighted UniFrac

Sampling Site

3

3.875

10.394

0.0001

0.250

 

Sample Type

4

7.561

15.212

0.0001

0.329

 

Sampling Site × Sample Type

12

6.544

4.389

0.0001

0.322

 

Residuals

64

7.953

  

0.353

 

Total

83

27.001

   
  1. p values were adjusted using Benjamini–Hochberg correction (padj.) and significance (p < 0.05) highlighted in bold.
  2. d.f. degrees of freedom, SS sum of squares, Sq. root square root.