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. 2019 Jul 17;9:10333. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46851-z

Table 4.

Effects of maize type (Bt and non-Bt maize), sampling time and year on soil fauna community structure analysed according to the nMDS method.

Correlation with nMDS structure Macfadyen Hand-sorting
R 2 P R 2 P
Sampling time 0.29 0.001*** 0.35 0.001***
Year 0.01 0.016* 0.00 0.013*
Maize type 0.00 0.953 0.00 0.601

The values highlighted in bold are statistically significant (*P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001).