TABLE 3.

PERMANOVA results for comparisons between each sample type and the stream system or depth^a

Analysis	Rarefaction subset	Comparison	F-stat	R 2	P-value
Weighted UniFrac	All samples	Stream	6.510	0.246	0.001
		Sample type	3.982	0.166	0.002
	Cement Creek	Sample type	8.29	0.675	0.003
	Mineral Creek		6.115	0.357	0.003
Unweighted UniFrac	All samples	Stream	4.888	0.196	0.001
		Sample type	2.445	0.109	0.005
	Cement Creek	Sample type	1.953	0.151	0.001
	Mineral Creek		5.143	0.255	0.001

^a Calculations completed in R with the adonis function in the vegan package and with outlying samples removed.