Epibenthic Assessment of a Renewable Tidal Energy Site

Table 2

(a) PERMANOVA to compare the infrequent/conspicuous species assemblage based on Bray Curtis similarities. Data were dispersion weighted and square root transformed. (b) Pairwise tests for Location. 𝑃 values in bold type are significant.

(a)  

Source	df	MS	Pseudo-F	𝑃 (perm)
Location Lo	4	5036.5	2.8667	0.0006
Area Ar(Lo)	12	1725.4	2.1951	0.0001
Site Si(Ar(Lo))	19	786.02	No test
Total	35

(b)  

Location pairings	𝑃 (perm)
A and B	0.0565
A and C	0.0146
A and D	0.4946
A and E	0.2627
B and C	0.0343
B and D	0.0298
B and E	0.0092
C and D	0.0145
C and E	0.0032
D and E	0.0501