Table 3. Summary of PERMANOVA results for Eunicella cavolini population density.

	Source of variation
	df	SS	MS	Pseudo-F	P(perm.)	Unique perm.
Region	2	726.65	363.33	21.237	0.0008*	9968
Locality(Region)	5	57.722	11.544	0.31125	0.8763	9960
Site(Locality(Region))	11	409.2	37.2	14.303	0.0001*	9944
Residuals	834	2169.1	2.6008
Total	852	3362.7

Tests of significance were run based on Euclidean distances for square root transformed data.

*statistically significant differences (p<0.05).