Table 4 Effects of maize type (Bt and non-Bt maize), sampling time and year on soil fauna community structure analysed according to the nMDS method.

From: No impact of transgenic cry1Ie maize on the diversity, abundance and composition of soil fauna in a 2-year field trial

Correlation with nMDS structure

Macfadyen

Hand-sorting

R 2

P

R 2

P

Sampling time

0.29

0.001***

0.35

0.001***

Year

0.01

0.016*

0.00

0.013*

Maize type

0.00

0.953

0.00

0.601

  1. The values highlighted in bold are statistically significant (*P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001).
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