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. 2015 May 15;9(11):2477–2489. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.58

Table 4. PERMANOVA and mixed model ANOVA analysis of bacterial and fungal community for each of the eight collection dates.

Month Community composition
Community evenness
  Drought
Nitrogen addition
Drought
Nitrogen addition
  Bacteria Fungi Bacteria Fungi Bacteria Fungi Bacteria Fungi
Year 1
 April 2010 NS 0.089 NS NS NS NS NS 0.009
 August 2010 NS NS 0.069 NS NS 0.032 NS NS
 December 2010 0.016 NS NS NS NS 0.001 NS NS
 February 2011 0.043 0.042 NS NS 0.044 0.001 NS NS
                 
Year 2
 June 2011 NA NS NS NS NS 0.06 NS NS
 September 2011 0.079 0.012 0.03 NS 0.098 NS 0.018 NS
 December 2011 0.07 0.038 0.048 0.048 0.023 0.009 NS 0.019
 March 2012 NS 0.013 NS 0.019 NS <0.001 NS 0.008

Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance; NA, not available; NS, not significant; PERMANOVA, permutational multivariate analysis of variance.

Each model included the variables of Treatment and Block. The significant and marginal P-values for the variable Treatment are reported.