Table 3.

Permanova analysis (999 permutations) results for bacterial and fungi communities based on weighted unifrac and Jaccard distances respectively.

	Bacteria		Fungi
	Pseudo-F	p value	Pseudo-F	p value
Main effects
Depth of sampling	2.822	0.29	1.612	0.23
Month of sampling	4.447	0.001**	3.600	0.001**
Day of sampling	10.553	0.001**	3.348	0.001**
Pairwise comparisons
July versus August	2.177	0.071	2.495	0.002**
July versus October	4.815	0.003**	4.485	0.001**
August versus October	6.253	0.003**	3.834	0.001**
Pairwise comparisons
Day 0 versus day 2	11.033	0.001**	1.362	0.015*
Day 0 versus day 3	13.459	0.001**	2.633	0.001**
Day 0 versus day 5	17.984	0.001**	5.538	0.001**
Day 0 versus day 7	18.172	0.001**	7.545	0.001**
Day 2 versus day 3	0.808	0.495	1.349	0.096
Day 2 versus day 5	7.957	0.001**	3.630	0.001**
Day 2 versus day 7	15.168	0.001**	5.556	0.001**
Day 3 versus day 5	5.392	0.002**	1.825	0.025*
Day 3 versus day 7	12.266	0.001**	3.187	0.001**
Day 5 versus day 7	3.421	0.12	1.097	0.232

Significance levels: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01.