Distinct patterns of distribution, community assembly and cross-domain co-occurrence of planktonic archaea in four major estuaries of China

Table 1 Permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity to quantify the effects of estuary, season, station, and their interactions on compositional variation of archaeal communities. Since all WP_L (the samples of low salinity in Pearl River estuary during the winter cruise) samples were removed due to low archaeal read counts, the interaction of season and station in Pearl River estuary cannot be tested

Estuary	Factor	R²	P
All	Estuary	0.367	0.001
	Station	0.115	0.001
	Season	0.105	0.001
	Estuary × Season	0.100	0.001
	Estuary × Station	0.085	0.001
	Station × Season	0.019	0.001
	Estuary × Station × Season	0.037	0.001
Yellow River estuary	Station	0.092	0.065
	Season	0.432	0.001
	Station × Season	0.046	0.357
Yangtze River estuary	Station	0.412	0.001
	Season	0.255	0.001
	Station × Season	0.122	0.001
Qiantang River estuary	Station	0.331	0.001
	Season	0.294	0.001
	Station × Season	0.143	0.001
Pearl River estuary	Station	0.318	0.001
Pearl River estuary	Season	0.421	0.001

Data in bold indicate significance (P < 0.05). R² values represent the proportion of variance constrained by factors or their interactions

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