Table 4. The effect of beetle identity and collection locality on fungal community composition evaluated by two complementary nonparametric tests.
Category | PERMANOVA (Pseudo-F statistic) | PERMANOVA (P-value) | ANOSIM (R statistic) | ANOSIM (P-value) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Species | 12.4569 | 0.001* | 0.6923 | 0.001* |
Locality | 4.0961 | 0.006* | 0.0588 | 0.091 |
Species+locality | 9.9311 | 0.001* | 0.5051 | 0.001* |
Abbreviations: ANOSIM, analysis of similarities; PERMANOVA, permutational multivariate analysis of variance. Beetle species is the strongest predictor of fungal community composition; locality and the interaction between species and locality have less significant effects. Significant P-values are marked with an asterisk.