Table 3.

Summary of MANOVA of different diversity indices.

Indices	Season (F2, 72)	Location (F3, 72)	Tissue (F2, 72)	Season × Location (F6, 72)	Season × Tissue (F4, 72)	Location × Tissue (F6, 72)	Season × Location × Tissue (F12, 72)
Shannon (H′)	180.857***	80.500***	59.126***	1.808 ns	2.481 ns	1.764 ns	0.651 ns
Evenness	1.463 ns	3.715*	19.131***	1.282 ns	0.817 ns	2.047 ns	1.524 ns
Species richness	187.583***	104.233***	91.291***	4.087***	3.621**	1.738 ns	1.350 ns

***Significant at p ≤ 0. 001, **Significant at p ≤ 0.01, *Significant at p ≤ 0.05, ^nsnon-significant; where F is degree of freedom for different variables.