Table 3. P values for ANOVA and Tukey HSD test comparing alpha diversity metrics for the three water masses in the Eastern Mediterranean.

	ANOVA		Tukey HSD Test
Diversity Metric	ANOVA p value	ANOVA F Statistic	EMDW-AW	LIW-AW	LIW-EMDW
Shannon	1.53E-06	32.59	0.00018	9.88E-07	0.00248
Simpson	1.55E-06	32.50	0.00187	9.83E-07	0.00023
PD Whole Tree	3.93E-14	312.55	3.39E-13	3.74E-13	0.01529