TABLE 2.

Pairwise comparisons between optimizers with regard to environmental representativeness when applying maximal coverage problem at plot level

	Richness	RRR	CRRR	Shannon	Simpson	Simpson_Beta	Frequent
Richness		0.68	≤0.001	≤0.01	≤0.05	≤0.1	0.25
RRR	0.68		≤0.001	≤0.1	≤0.05	0.20	0.49
CRRR	≤0.001	≤0.001		≤0.01	≤0.01	≤0.001	≤0.001
Shannon	≤0.05	≤0.1	≤0.01		0.78	0.48	0.21
Simpson	≤0.01	≤0.05	≤0.01	0.75		0.29	0.12
Simpson_Beta	≤0.1	0.22	≤0.001	0.48	0.30		0.58
Frequent	0.25	0.48	≤0.001	0.21	0.12	0.58

The observed p‐value are located in the below diagonal, while the permuted p‐value are in the above diagonal. Only significant differences are highlighted in bold. Notice that marginally significant values (p‐value ≤ .1) are shown although not highlighted.