Table 1. Results from pairwise ANOSIM tests comparing differences in arthropod assemblages among adjacent biomes in each season (spring/May and summer/September).

Significant differences following Bonferroni adjustment (α = 0.005) are asterisked.

Season	Pairwise Comparisons	All Taxa		Coleoptera			Araneae		Orthoptera		Myriapoda
		R	P	R	P	R		P	R	P	R	P
May	Desert scrub vs. Grassland	0.50	0.0003*	0.63	0.0005*	0.07		0.2330	0.30	0.0530	-0.14	0.9800
	Grassland vs. Chaparral	0.63	0.0001*	0.50	0.0004*	0.53		0.0001*	0.33	0.0090	0.18	0.0470
	Chaparral vs. Pine/Oak	0.55	0.0001*	0.34	0.0020*	0.62		0.0001*	-0.07	0.7700	0.02	0.3910
	Pine/Oak vs. Pine	0.34	0.0001*	0.27	0.0002*	0.08		0.0600	0.34	0.0010*	0.11	0.0910
	Pine vs. Mixed Conifer	0.59	0.0001*	0.32	0.0020*	0.61		0.0001*	0.17	0.0120	0.29	0.0060
September	Desert scrub vs. Grassland	0.43	0.0010*	0.49	0.0004*	0.11		0.1360	-0.22	0.9580	-0.14	0.8560
	Grassland vs. Chaparral	0.72	0.0001*	0.78	0.0001*	0.32		0.0005*	0.08	0.1700	0.11	0.1190
	Chaparral vs. Pine/Oak	0.47	0.0001*	0.54	0.0004*	0.30		0.0010*	-0.07	0.8460	0.01	0.3560
	Pine/Oak vs. Pine	0.27	0.0004*	0.10	0.0500	0.16		0.0070	0.78	0.0003*	0.10	0.1240
	Pine vs. Mixed Conifer	0.47	0.0002*	0.23	0.0050	0.00		0.4500	1.00	0.0280 ϯ	0.45	0.0004*

Ϯ Lowest possible p-value due to limited possible permutations, but not significant following α correction.