TABLE 2.

Summary statistics of null models calculated with randomized microbial community data of bacterial phyla and cyanobacteria to assess the similarity between inoculum and nursery-reared biocrusts during the optimized, second set of experiments, according to site^a

Site	Bacterial phyla			Cyanobacteria
	BC	SES	P	BC	SES	P
Fort Bliss	0.47	−4.35	0.000	0.73	−0.40	0.345
Jornada	0.23	−5.31	0.000	0.49	−1.98	0.040
Nosecone	0.21	−5.53	0.000	0.39	−2.50	0.015
Burr Buttercup	0.39	−4.69	0.000	0.48	−1.99	0.034

^aBC, Bray-Curtis dissimilarity index, as an estimate of community composition shift based on bacterial phyla and cyanobacteria; SES, standardized effect size.