Table 4. Summary of PERMANOVA pairwise comparisons for Eunicella cavolini population density among regions.
Pairwise test for regions’ density | t | P(perm.) | Unique perm. |
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NW Mediterranean, CE Adriatic | 2.9077 | 0.0183* | 9970 |
NW Mediterranean, Aegean | 7.0213 | 0.0019* | 9965 |
CE Adriatic, Aegean | 4.263 | 0.0114* | 9965 |
Tests of significance were run based on Euclidean distances for square root transformed data.
*statistically significant differences (p<0.05).