. 2016 Oct 19;11(10):e0164121. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164121

Table 2. Results of univariate PERMANOVAs comparing fish assemblage structure between forest and barren.

			All fish			Crypto-benthic fish			Necto-benthic fish
Response variable	Source	df	SS	F		SS	F		SS	F
Number of taxa	HA	1	159.6	29.50	^***	44.3	23.00	^***	35.8	13.72	^**
	RT	1	65.4	12.08	^**	26.4	13.72	^**	8.7	3.33	^°
	LP(RT)	2	28.1	2.60	^ns	2.1	0.54	^ns	23.1	4.44	^*
	RTxHA	1	1.0	0.19	^ns	3.8	1.95	^ns	0.9	0.33	^ns
	LP(RT)xHA	2	8.4	0.77	^ns	1.2	0.31	^ns	3.3	0.63	^ns
	Residual	11	59.5			21.2			28.7
Total density	HA	1	492.8	39.16	^***	420.5	34.95	^***	2.9	39.54	^***
	RT	1	399.7	31.77	^***	406.8	33.81	^***	0.0	0.43	^ns
	LP(RT)	2	19.2	0.76	^ns	12.1	0.50	^ns	1.1	7.49	^**
	RTxHA	1	203.0	16.13	^**	223.5	18.57	^**	0.5	6.77	^*
	LP(RT)xHA	2	8.1	0.32	^ns	5.9	0.25	^ns	0.2	1.38	^ns
	Residual	11	138.4			132.7			0.8
	Pairwise tests Forest vs Barren		Corsica: t = 2.05^°; Menorca: t = 5.86^**			Corsica: t = 1.50^ns; Menorca: t = 5.70 ^***			Corsica: t = 5.27^; Menorca: t = 5.51^
Total biomass	HA	1	21.8	0.70	^ns	6.0	3.42	^ns	4.9	0.16	^ns
	RT	1	23.5	0.76	^ns	1.1	0.62	^ns	34.7	1.11	^ns
	LP(RT)	2	395.3	6.38	^*	4.9	1.38	^ns	404.5	6.48	^*
	RTxHA	1	130.6	4.22	^°	1.5	0.82	^ns	104.6	3.35	^°
	LP(RT)xHA	2	202.1	3.26	^°	6.6	1.88	^ns	166.7	2.67	^ns
	Residual	11	340.7			19.4			343.0

HA: habitat; RT: region-time; LP: locality-protection.

^ns not significant

° p < 0.1

* p < 0.05

** p < 0.01

*** p < 0.001.