Table 2. Mantel test correlation between physical distance and community structure.

	ML		AB		VB
	r	P	r	P	r	P
Bray–Curtis distance	0.001	0.007	0.000	0.392	0.002	0.169
Taxa (S)	0.838	0.041	0.044	0.491	0.407	0.047
Gini coefficient (Gcorr)	0.534	0.067	−0.497	0.944	0.233	0.178

r indicates the coefficient of correlation and P the significance of this correlation.