Table 5. Summary of PERMANOVA results for Eunicella cavolini colony height.
| Colony height | Source of variation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source | df | SS | MS | Pseudo-F | P(perm.) | Unique perm. |
| Region | 2 | 295.97 | 147.98 | 2.4786 | 0.1657 | 9955 |
| Locality(Region) | 5 | 176.86 | 35.371 | 1.4701 | 0.2791 | 9955 |
| Site(Locality(Region)) | 11 | 326.65 | 29.695 | 29.73 | 0.0001* | 9932 |
| Residuals | 3103 | 3099.4 | 0.99884 | |||
| Total | 3121 | 3898.9 | ||||
Tests of significance were run based on Euclidean distances for square root transformed data.
*statistically significant differences (p<0.05).