Table 2. Clementsian pattern in the Zygoptera and Anisoptera metacommunities in the Amazonia, by the evaluation of three EMS - Coherence, Turnover and Boundary Clumping.

	Covariate	C obs	Z	p	C null	σC	β obs	Z	p	β null	σβ	I	p	df	Pattern
Zygoptera	Space	1317	6.636	<0.001	1948.614	95.175	2116	0.195	0.845	2811.973	3563.579	1.921	<0.001	44	Quasi-Nested
	HII	1624	3.181	0.001	1913.390	90.970	51062	−8.109	<0.001	4144.332	5785.557	2.359	<0.001	44	Clementsian
	pH	1544	3.549	<0.001	1893.314	98.440	6704	−0.510	0.610	4146.172	5016.043	1.766	<0.001	44	Quasi-Clementsian
	Width	1784	1.364	0.173	1899.836	84.948	6452	−1.521	0.128	2748.147	2435.887	2.366	<0.001	44	Quasi-Clementsian
	Depth	1496	4.302	<0.001	1881.383	89.588	941	0.579	0.562	3117.047	3756.452	2.055	<0.001	44	Quasi-Nested
	Temperature	1144	7.080	<0.002	1819.858	95.454	108949	−9.608	0.000	5704.781	10745.637	1.853	<0.001	44	Clementsian
	Seasonality	1446	4.511	<0.003	1897.320	100.039	820	0.491	0.624	2791.771	4019.270	1.773	<0.001	44	Quasi-Nested
	Precipitation	1314	4.636	<0.004	1869.521	119.827	15140	−2.347	0.019	3383.697	5008.044	1.720	<0.001	44	Clementsian
	EVI	1695	2.283	0.022	1897.436	88.687	7576	−1.484	0.138	2968.212	3105.611	1.910	<0.001	44	Quasi-Clementsian
	Interfluve	1271	4.982	<0.001	1815.074	109.218	50081	−11.671	<0.001	3428.736	3997.394	2.038	<0.001	44	Clementsian
	RecipAvg	1153	2.716	0.007	1541.730	143.116	139041	−0.844	0.399	108109.812	36641.035	1.766	<0.001	44
Anisoptera	Spatial Filter 1	213	4.636	<0.001	341.533	27.727	15234	−8.149	<0.001	1481.541	1687.534	3.238	<0.001	50	Clementsian
	Spatial Filter 3	262	2.663	0.008	341.483	29.842	1080	0.399	0.690	1735.172	1643.009	4.587	<0.001	50	Quasi-Nested
	HII	202	4.368	<0.001	339.207	31.409	14799	−6.804	<0.001	2045.374	1874.318	5.802	<0.001	50	Clementsian
	pH	305	0.974	0.330	330.443	26.109	851	0.572	0.567	1744.565	1561.156	15.111	<0.001	50	Quasi-Nested
	Width	288	1.691	0.091	338.812	30.053	1916	−0.217	0.829	1632.327	1309.885	7.960	<0.001	50	Quasi-Clementsian
	Depth	259	3.017	0.003	341.900	27.474	3809	−1.319	0.187	1708.445	1591.967	6.476	<0.001	50	Quasi-Clementsian
	Temperature	206	4.604	<0.001	329.883	26.908	14867	−8.254	<0.001	1697.220	1595.500	4.183	<0.001	50	Clementsian
	Seasonality	256	3.271	0.001	349.730	28.656	919	0.206	0.837	1179.262	1262.977	7.286	<0.001	50	Quasi-Nested
	Precipitation	256	2.803	0.005	336.011	28.548	5421	−2.265	0.024	1663.722	1658.869	5.667	<0.001	50	Clementsian
	EVI	281	2.533	0.011	350.561	27.459	408	0.747	0.455	1617.110	1619.153	7.825	<0.001	50	Quasi-Nested
	Interfluve	231	4.087	<0.001	352.406	29.703	13046	−7.903	<0.001	1250.468	1492.559	5.667	<0.001	50	Clementsian
	RecipAvg	198	2.608	0.009	278.034	30.692	15860	−1.391	0.164	11659.885	3019.654	3.238	<0.001	50

Notes.

C obs

observed coherence

C null

coherence expected by chance, based on the 999 null metacommunities

σ C

standard deviation of coherence

β obs

observed turnover

β null

turnover expected by chance, based on the 999 null metacommunities

σβ

standard deviation of turnover

I

Morisita index

Bold indicates statistically significant p-values.