Table 4. PERMANOVA analysis (based on relative abundance and presence-absence values) of “resident/core” fungal communities (normalized) at an OTU-level cluster at 97% similarity of sponges and seawater samples.

Temporal samples	P-value base on relative abundance	P-value based on presence-absence
2014 vs. 2016	0.023	0.001
C. concentrica 2014 vs. 2016	0.1	0.001
Scopalina sp. 2014 vs. 2016	NA	NA
T. anhelans 2014 vs. 2016	0.40	0.40
Seawater 2014 vs. 2016	0.1	0.008
Sample type
C. concentrica vs. Scopalina sp.	0.4	0.386
C. concentrica vs. T. anhelans	0.24	0.154
C. concentrica vs. seawater	0.54	0.632
Scopalina sp. vs. T. anhelans	0.048	0.048
Scopalina sp. vs. seawater	0.5	0.338
T. anhelans vs. seawater	0.143	0.139

Note:

P-values smaller than 0.05 are shown in bold.