Table 3.

Overall comparison of vascular plant composition, for each dataset, by the multi-response permutation procedure (MRPP)

Dataset	δ				T	p	A
	Observed	Expected	Variance	Skewness
AH	0.568	0.595	<0.001	−0.859	−3.484	0.004	0.046
BC	0.310	0.320	<0.001	−0.914	−1.501	0.081	0.030
BS	0.472	0.470	<0.001	−1.918	0.463	0.588	−0.005
Påtjujaure	0.518	0.586	<0.001	−0.492	−38.005	<0.001	0.116
Ridonjira	0.475	0.501	<0.001	−0.386	−18.908	<0.001	0.052
Slåttatjåkka	0.558	0.561	0.001	−1.053	−0.510	0.260	0.006
UE	0.717	0.707	0.007	−2.109	0.349	0.515	-0.013

Bold figures denote a significant overall test, i.e. species composition differs between years. Multiple comparisons of vascular plant composition, Påtjujaure and Ridonjira datasets are presented in Table S9 (Supplementary Information)