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Table 2.

Analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) results of different comparisons based on months (May, August, and October), layers (B for bottom and S for surface), and habitats (coast and shelf) among the whole protist communities based on unweighed Unifrac distance and Bray-Curtis distance.

Distance between samples		Unweighted Unifrac		Bray-Curtis
Grouping by	Comparisons	R	p	R	p
Month	Aug vs. May	0.457	<0.001^*	0.492	<0.001^*
	Aug vs. Oct	0.340	<0.001^*	0.316	<0.001^*
	May vs. Oct	0.515	<0.001^*	0.432	<0.001^*
	Aug_B vs. May_B	0.418	<0.001^*	0.430	0.001^*
	Aug_B vs. Oct_B	0.210	0.011	0.180	0.028
	May_B vs. Oct_B	0.358	<0.001^*	0.398	<0.001^*
	Aug_S vs. May_S	0.523	<0.001^*	0.632	<0.001^*
	Aug_S vs. Oct_S	0.548	<0.001^*	0.599	<0.001^*
	May_S vs. Oct_S	0.731	<0.001^*	0.539	<0.001^*
	Aug_Coast vs. May_Coast	0.844	<0.001^*	0.946	<0.001^*
	Aug_Coast vs. Oct_Coast	0.814	<0.001^*	0.920	<0.001^*
	May_Coast vs. Oct_Coast	0.982	<0.001^*	0.944	<0.001^*
	Aug_Shelf vs. May_Shelf	0.245	0.003^*	0.297	0.001^*
	Aug_Shelf vs. Oct_Shelf	0.074	0.144	0.130	0.065
	May_Shelf vs. Oct_Shelf	0.274	0.004^*	0.347	0.001^*
Layer	B vs. S	0.127	<0.001^*	0.120	<0.001^*
	Aug_B vs. Aug_S	0.249	0.003^*	0.230	0.006^*
	May_B vs. May_S	0.058	0.131	0.141	0.022
	Oct_B vs. Oct_S	0.053	0.134	0.051	0.169
	Coast_B vs. Coast_S	0.001	0.370	−0.020	0.575
	Shelf_B vs. Shelf_S	0.302	<0.001^*	0.396	<0.001^*
Habitats	Coast vs. shelf	0.232	<0.001^*	0.304	<0.001^*
	Aug_Coast vs. Aug_Shelf	0.361	<0.001^*	0.401	<0.001^*
	May_Coast vs. May_Shelf	0.321	<0.001^*	0.382	<0.001^*
	Oct_Coast vs. Oct_Shelf	0.599	<0.001^*	0.694	<0.001^*
	Coast_B vs. Shelf_B	0.333	<0.001^*	0.428	<0.001^*
	Coast_S vs. Shelf_S	0.188	0.003^*	0.284	<0.001^*

Bold fonts represent insignificant difference with values of p higher than 0.01. ^*Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.