Table 2.

Jaccard and Bray‐Curtis distance‐based significance test of centroid differences between the observed communities and the null model simulations for each elevation

	Actual centroid	Null centroid	F	P
Jaccard distance
3106 m	0.563	0.554	1.019	0.003
3580 m	0.561	0.558	0.244	0.006
3694 m	0.577	0.534	695.454	< 0.001
3856 m	0.583	0.533	706.395	< 0.001
4331 m	0.582	0.537	96.028	< 0.001
Bray‐Curtis distance
3106 m	0.458	0.588	20.322	< 0.001
3580 m	0.448	0.597	39.573	< 0.001
3694 m	0.408	0.544	345.225	< 0.001
3856 m	0.422	0.540	272.183	< 0.001
4331 m	0.460	0.548	26.721	< 0.001