TABLE 2.

ANOSIM, Adonis, and MRPP statistical tests of the groupings of molecular- and morphology-based ciliate communities according to depth, region and season.

	ANOSIM				Adonis				MRPP
	2014_V4		2014_Morphology		2014_V4		2014_Morphology		2014_V4		2014_Morphology
	R	P	R	P	R2	P	R2	P	A	p	A	p
Depth (N = 22)	0.66	<0.001	0.392	<0.001	0.375	0.001	0.25	0.001	0.169	0.001	0.088	0.001
3 m vs. 50–100 m N(3 m) = 10, N(50–100 m) = 8	0.6	<0.001	0.288	0.002	0.284	0.002	0.143	0.006	0.13	0.001	0.047	0.006
3 m vs. 200–1000 m N(3 m) = 10, N(200–1000 m) = 4	0.879	0.002	0.66	0.004	0.353	0.002	0.277	0.002	0.157	0.002	0.105	0.002
50–100 m vs. 200–1000 m N(50–100 m) = 8, N(200–1000 m) = 4	0.572	0.008	0.276	0.072	0.259	0.008	0.195	0.022	0.096	0.003	0.06	0.021
Nearshore vs. offshore N(nearshore) = 4, N(offshore) = 18	0.353	0.008	–0.038	0.531	0.138	0.003	0.06	0.153	0.052	0.005	0.012	0.103
Season (spring vs. summer) N(spring) = 11, N(summer) = 11	0.021	0.273	0.126	0.019	0.056	0.243	0.084	0.046	0.007	0.227	0.02	0.039
Spring vs. summer (3 m) N(spring) = 5, N(summer) = 5	0.188	0.077	0.556	0.007	0.178	0.143	0.252	0.009	0.031	0.088	0.082	0.009
Spring vs. summer (50–100 m) N(spring) = 4, N(summer) = 4	0.056	0.347	0.135	0.196	0.184	0.129	0.151	0.272	0.041	0.088	0.002	0.313

Community turnover is based on the Bray–Curtis distance. Numbers in bold indicate statistically significant results.