Table 1.

Benthic PERMANOVA testing for differences in benthic community structure between different protection types, depths and sites and the interactions between them. Model was of the form: benthic matrix ∼ latitude + protection × site × depth.

source	d.f.	mean square	pseudo-F	p-value
latitude	1	0.7	12.4	<0.001
protection	1	0.1	0.9	0.467
site	1	0.3	6.1	<0.001
depth	6	0.5	9.8	<0.001
protection : depth	1	0.4	8.0	<0.001
site : depth	5	0.2	3.7	<0.001
residuals	48	0.1
total	63