Table 2.
Pairwise community dissimilarity test of phyllospheric bacterial and fungal communities using analysis of similarity (Anosim) based on Bray-curtis distances.
| Community | Bacteria | Fungi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seedling | Squaring | Maturing | Seedling | Squaring | Maturing | |
| Seedling | 0.919 | 0.615 | 0.702 | 0.152 | ||
| Squaring | 0.004 | 0.523 | 0.003 | 0.365 | ||
| Maturing | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.123 | 0.007 | ||
Upper diagonal cells are R values, and lower diagonal cells are p values. Values in bold represent that there is a significant difference (p < 0.05) between microbial communities for pairwise samples.