Table 4.

Mantel statistic r and their significance using Mantel’s test based on 4,999 permutations, and R² and p-value for a linear model of the regression of effective β diversity and difference in elevation in Fig. 7

	Mantel statistic r	Significance	R2	p-value
16S	0.155	0.2048	0.0241	0.309
18S	0.481	0.0042	0.231	8.35e-04
trnL	0.201	0.1378	0.0402	0.187
ITS	0.276	0.0524	0.0763	0.0662
COI	0.487	0.0034	0.237	6.9e-04
COI-spun	0.398	0.0026	0.158	0.00683
Seedlings	0.672	8e-04	0.451	4.37e-07
Trees	0.827	2e-04	0.684	2.51e-12
Invertebrates	0.813	0.0052	0.661	1.48e-07
Birds	0.096	0.2942	0.00929	0.529