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. 2021 Sep 21;9:e11915. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11915

Table 1. Inter-habitat dissimilarity measurements comparing paired soil-phyllosphere communities and a null hypothesis.

Spatial autocorrelation is indicated by the smaller dissimilarities between observed communities than the null-hypothesis. Significance was tested by student t-test. The entire study spanned < 110 km, and the six transects (T1–T12) each covered an area of 400 m2.

Transect
Entire study T1 T4 T6 T9 T10 T12
Distance (<110 km) (10 × 40 m)
Bray–Curtis dissimilarity (Soil-Phyllosphere)
Observeda 0.925 ∗∗ 0.926 0.881 0.934 0.929 0.928 ∗∗∗ 0.960
Randomizedb 0.958 ∗∗∗ 0.931 0.893 0.948 0.940 0.943 ∗∗∗ 0.964

Notes.

a

mean BC dissimilarity for fungal communities from soil and phyllosphere of the identical sampling site.

b

mean BC dissimilarity for fungal communities from soil and phyllosphere of a randomized sampling site.

p-value: <0.001∗∗∗; <0.01∗∗∗; <0.05.