Epibenthic Assessment of a Renewable Tidal Energy Site

Table 1

(a) PERMANOVA to compare the assemblage composition of the abundant/encrusting fauna based on Bray Curtis similarities. Data were dispersion weighted and square root transformed. (b) Pairwise tests for Location differences. 𝑃 values in bold type are significant.

(a)  

Source	df	MS	Pseudo-F	𝑃 (perm)
Location Lo	4	2246.6	1.9995	0.0029
Area Ar(Lo)	11	1125.4	1.2587	0.0825
Site (Ar(Lo))	16	894.08	No test
Total	31

(b)  

Location pairings	𝑃 (perm)
A and B	0.1719
A and C	0.1233
A and D	0.4978
A and E	0.4014
B and C	0.1127
B and D	0.0270
B and E	0.0107
C and D	0.0218
C and E	0.0047
D and E	0.0470