TABLE 3.
Results of PERMANOVA (A) and Mantel tests (B), used to identify significant differences in diet composition between bat species, maternity roosts, year of sampling, and sampling period.
| (a) | PERMANOVA based on 999 permutations | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| df | R 2 | F | Pr(>F) | |
| Bat species | 1 | 0.0563 | 102.47 | 0.001 |
| Roost | 11 | 0.1866 | 35.621 | 0.001 |
| Year | 1 | 0.0118 | 20.582 | 0.001 |
| Sampling period | 2 | 0.0192 | 16.881 | 0.001 |
| Year × Sampling period | 8 | 0.0486 | 10.99 | 0.001 |
| (B) | Mantel test based on 999 permutations | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistic r | Significance | 90% | 95% | 97.50% | 99% | |
| Brown long‐eared bat | 0.2525 | 0.001 | 0.0107 | 0.0143 | 0.0165 | 0.0190 |
| Soprano pipistrelle | 0.3161 | 0.001 | 0.0060 | 0.0082 | 0.0093 | 0.0115 |
Note: Table presents F‐statistics, R 2 values, degree of freedom, and p‐values (Pr(>F)). PERMANOVA test (performed using ‘adonis2’ function of Vegan package) compares diet composition between groups. Mantel test measures correlation between beta diversity and landscape diversity, using ‘mantel’ with Spearman correlation. Mantel results are indicated with 95% CI [0.50, 0.75]. Significant p‐values (< 0.05) are indicated in bold.