Table 3. Significant Spearman's correlations between microbial eukaryote assemblages from different years at the same depth were detected for assemblages at 5 m and at the DCM, but not for the assemblages at 150 or 500 m.

Depth	Years compared	Spearman's correlation (P-value)
5 m	2002, 2006	0.368 (0.046)
5 m	2003, 2006	0.456 (0.020)
5 m	2005, 2006*	0.806 (0.025)
5 m	2002, 2009	0.349 (0.047)
DCM	2003, 2004	0.598 (0.014)
DCM	2003, 2010	0.461 (0.020)

Abbreviations: DCM, deep chlorophyll maximum; MDS, multidimensional scaling.

The table includes depth, years compared, Spearman's correlations and P-values within parentheses. The correlation between the monthly assemblage at 5 m in 2005 and the monthly assemblage at 5 m in 2006 (marked with an asterisk) is depicted in MDS plots (Figures 6e and f).