TABLE 3.

ANOSIM statistics for pairwise comparisons involving patchiness at the basin level scale^a

Lake, comparison	Sample statistic R	No. of Monte Carlo permutations with scores ≥ Rb	P value
Big Muskellunge Lake
Basin 3 vs basin 4	0.146	9	0.010
Basin 4 vs basin 5	0.352	0	0.001
Little Rock Lake, basin 10 vs basin 11	1.0	0	0.001
Lake Mendota
Basin 12 vs basin 15	0.25	24	0.025
Basin 14 vs basin 15	0.16	43	0.044
Basin 15 vs basin 16	0.32	17	0.018
Lake Monona
Basin 17 vs basin 19	0.196	26	0.027
Basin 18 vs basin 19	0.247	11	0.012
Trout Lake
Basin 24 vs basin 26	0.293	13	0.014
Basin 24 vs basin 27	0.605	0	0.001
Basin 25 vs basin 26	0.177	28	0.029
Basin 25 vs basin 27	0.713	0	0.001
Basin 26 vs basin 27	0.894	0	0.001

^aThe magnitude of R represents the degree of separation between defined basin groups (see Materials and Methods). Only significant comparisons are shown.

^bOut of 999.