Table 3.

ANOSIM, PERMANOVA, and MRPP analysis of microbial diversity among different treatments.

	Anosim		Permanova		Mrpp
	R	P	R2	P	A	P
Treatment	0.561	0.001	0.597	0.002	0.327	0.001
Control vs. Cp	0.492	0.020	0.439	0.034	0.217	0.022
Cp vs. BSC10+Cp	0.084	0.232	0.109	0.376	0.018	0.275
Cp vs. Lac16+Cp	0.928	0.005	0.720	0.007	0.425	0.007

ANOSIM, analysis of similarities; PERMANOVA, permutational multivariate analysis of variance; MRPP, multi-response permutation procedure. n = five samples.