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 | |||||||
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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.
mean BC dissimilarity for fungal communities from soil and phyllosphere of the identical sampling site.
mean BC dissimilarity for fungal communities from soil and phyllosphere of a randomized sampling site.
p-value: <0.001∗∗∗; <0.01∗∗∗; <0.05∗.