Research Article

Assessment of Longitudinal Gradients in Nematode Communities in the Deep Northern Gulf of Mexico and Concordance with Benthic Taxa

Table 3

R statistic values for ANOSIM test of the Bray-Curtis similarity matrices for pairwise comparison of longitudinal and depth differences in distribution of genera and family levels.

Pair-wise comparisonGlobal R P value

Genus
 Longitude0.9250.001
 Depth0.326ns
Family
 Longitude0.6500.003
 Depth0.338ns
Feeding groups
 Longitude0.269ns
 Depth0.4140.009