Table 2.

The effect of HMA-LMA status on microbial communities at different taxonomic ranks.

Level	MS	Pseudo-F	P (perm)	Unclassified sequences*
Phylum	21,816	12.172	0.001	5.75
Class	25,402	10.755	0.001	20.27
Order	184,850	8.7579	0.001	54.64
Family	31,065	10.029	0.001	64.11
Genus	33,377	9.9077	0.001	89.34
Species	33,061	9.6671	0.001	98.24
df:1, Res:224, Total:250

PERMANOVA analysis was performed with Bray–Curtis dissimilarities between samples obtained from square root transformed abundances. See Table 1 for full model.

^*Percentage of sequences that fell in “unclassified” taxon during the taxonomic grouping of OTU abundances.