Table 4. Difference in community structure evaluated with V2-V3 and V3-V4 regions at different taxonomic ranks.

Taxonomic level	NMDS from Bray-Curtis distance		NMDS from Gower distance		NMDS from Jaccard distance
	R2	P_value	R2	P_value	R2	P_value
phylum	0.12	0.04	0.14	0.016	0.11	0.036
class	0.35	0.001	0.28	0.001	0.35	0.001
order	0.35	0.001	0.38	0.001	0.35	0.001
family	0.42	0.001	0.39	0.001	0.43	0.001