Table 1.
Two-way ANOVA showing the effects of seasonality and/or habitats (coast and shelf area) on the α-diversity estimators of operational taxonomic units (OTUs; 97% similarity cut-off) of the whole communities.
| Diversity estimators | Seasons | Habitats | Seasons × Habitats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | p | F | p | F | p | |
| Sobs | 21.692 | 0.000 | 8.152 | 0.006 | 2.995 | 0.060 |
| ACE | 12.563 | 0.000 | 5.942 | 0.019 | 3.261 | 0.047 |
| Chao1 | 14.731 | 0.000 | 6.358 | 0.015 | 2.066 | 0.138 |
| Shannon | 19.792 | 0.000 | 2.322 | 0.134 | 1.653 | 0.202 |
| Simpson | 13.613 | 0.000 | 1.513 | 0.225 | 1.787 | 0.179 |
| Pielou’s | 16.509 | 0.000 | 1.287 | 0.262 | 2.053 | 0.140 |
Significant values of p (<0.05) are highlighted in bold. F, F-statistic; p, values of p.