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. 2013 Apr 18;7(8):1531–1543. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2013.53

Table 1. Separate statistical analysis (CCA, CCA per groups and PERMANOVA) to estimate the contribution (from R 2 values) of five environmental factors in the ARISA fingerprinting variance.

Variable CCA
CCA (separate temperature groups)
PERMANOVA
      COLD
TEMPERATE
WARM
     
  R2 Sign R2 Sign R2 Sign R2 Sign Grouped factors R2 Sign
Temperature (°C) 0.51 *** 0.01   0.12 ** 0.21 *** 2–9.5, 9.5–17, 17–30 0.36 ***
Z (m) 0.18 *** 0.02   0.41 *** 0.13 *** 0–25, 25–75, 75–180, 180–250 0.08 ***
Salinity 0.11 *** 0.06 ** 0.10 * 0.25 *** 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 0.07 ***
Zmax (m) 0.06 *** 0.01   0.06   0.08 ** 0–200, 200–1000, 1000–6000 0.02 *
Chlorophyll (μg l−1) 0.05 * 0.01   0.04   0.15 *** 0–0.5, 0.5–1.5, 1.5–4 0.02 *
Total 0.91   0.06   0.63   0.82     0.55  

Abbreviations: ARISA, automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis; CCA, Constrained Correspondence Analysis; PERMANOVA, permutational multivariate analysis of variance; Z, sampling depth; Zmax, bottom depth.

Significance codes: ***<0.001; **0.001–0.01; *0.01–0.05.

Bold numbers represent the highest R2 of the particular analysis.