Table 3. Summary of PERMANOVA test on the effects of Eunicella cavolinii forests (Fo) on the recruitment of ecological and functional groups and diversity indices at different sites (Si) and among plots (Pl) within Fo×Si.
| Forest (Fo) | Site (Si) | Fo×Si | Plot (Fo×Si) | Res | |||||||||
| (1 df) | (1 df) | (1 df) | (11 df) | (45 df) | |||||||||
| MS | F | P | MS | F | P | MS | F | P | MS | F | P | MS | |
| Erect blue-green algae | 377.74 | 3.25 | 0.0949 ns | 65.39 | 0.56 | 0.4905 ns | 57.55 | 0.50 | 0.5193 ns | 116.14 | 3.65 | 0.0006*** | 31.81 |
| Erect red algae | 6’238.30 | 4.89 | 0.0337* | 28’074.00 | 22.03 | 0.0001*** | 90.40 | 0.07 | 0.8214 ns | 1’274.50 | 4.19 | 0.0005*** | 304.05 |
| Encrusting red algae | 0.12 | 0.06 | 0.8071 ns | 9.14 | 4.93 | 0.0510 ns | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.9251 ns | 1.85 | 2.55 | 0.0096** | 0.73 |
| Crustose coralline algae | 1’611.40 | 8.76 | 0.0133* | 1’210.90 | 6.58 | 0.0266* | 113.60 | 0.62 | 0.4505 ns | 183.99 | 4.83 | 0.0002*** | 38.07 |
| Erect brown algae | 686.49 | 5.00 | 0.0475* | 333.96 | 2.43 | 0.1419 ns | 224.16 | 1.63 | 0.2367 ns | 137.22 | 4.11 | 0.0002*** | 33.35 |
| Encrusting brown algae | 7.46 | 0.78 | 0.4479 ns | 50.63 | 5.29 | 0.0105* | 7.80 | 0.81 | 0.4364 ns | 9.58 | 9.95 | 0.0001*** | 0.96 |
| Encrusting green algae | 1’069.00 | 2.42 | 0.1427 ns | 2’025.50 | 4.58 | 0.0567 ns | 16.43 | 0.04 | 0.8566 ns | 442.65 | 2.84 | 0.0062** | 155.64 |
| Erect green algae | 7.36 | 11.22 | 0.0057** | 5.82 | 8.88 | 0.0117* | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.9317 ns | 0.66 | 1.64 | 0.1153 ns | 0.40 |
| Foraminifera | 703.38 | 3.12 | 0.1119 ns | 7’915.90 | 35.06 | 0.0001*** | 406.27 | 1.80 | 0.2165 ns | 225.79 | 4.85 | 0.0001*** | 46.60 |
| Erect sponges | 11’245.00 | 3.85 | 0.0056** | 42’098.00 | 14.42 | 0.0001*** | 1’358.40 | 0.47 | 0.8051 ns | 2’919.30 | 3.82 | 0.0001*** | 763.53 |
| Hydroids | 462.56 | 1.07 | 0.3229 ns | 1’002.10 | 2.33 | 0.1493 ns | 135.47 | 0.31 | 0.5824 ns | 430.45 | 3.85 | 0.0006*** | 111.72 |
| Calcareous tube worms | 44.43 | 1.87 | 0.2001 ns | 769.63 | 32.48 | 0.0003*** | 135.71 | 5.73 | 0.0358* | 23.70 | 2.19 | 0.0315* | 10.80 |
| Bivalves | 0.14 | 3.07 | 0.1112 ns | 0.63 | 14.01 | 0.0002*** | 0.14 | 3.07 | 0.1008 ns | 0.04 | 1.06 | 0.4171 ns | 0.04 |
| Encrusting bryozoans | 10.13 | 1.89 | 0.2187 ns | 234.47 | 43.70 | 0.0001*** | 5.48 | 1.02 | 0.3367 ns | 5.37 | 1.78 | 0.0649 ns | 3.01 |
| Stoloniferous bryozoans | 0.67 | 0.01 | 0.9110 ns | 0.89 | 0.02 | 0.9010 ns | 128.35 | 2.68 | 0.1343 ns | 47.86 | 2.26 | 0.0183* | 21.16 |
| Erect bryozoans | 4.09 | 0.36 | 0.5626 ns | 316.64 | 27.66 | 0.0002*** | 15.08 | 1.32 | 0.2861 ns | 11.45 | 4.28 | 0.0002*** | 2.67 |
| S | 513.39 | 3.34 | 0.0923 ns | 1’773.60 | 11.54 | 0.0029** | 27.08 | 0.18 | 0.6911 ns | 153.66 | 6.43 | 0.0001*** | 23.90 |
| N1 | 135.93 | 5.40 | 0.0370* | 512.72 | 20.38 | 0.0003*** | 4.10 | 0.16 | 0.7033 ns | 25.16 | 4.98 | 0.0001*** | 5.05 |
| N10 | 0.01 | 9.91 | 0.0087** | 0.04 | 39.23 | 0.0001*** | 0.00 | 0.81 | 0.3903 ns | 0.00 | 0.79 | 0.6509 ns | 0.00 |