Comparison of ability of MaxN and MTL methods to detect significant effects on community composition with lower sampling effort.

PERMANOVA results of square root transformed relative abundance data generated by MaxN and MLT. Significant values are highlighted in bold. The full experimental design was reduced to five videos for all habitats. By reducing the sample size of the fished sites at both depths to five, maintaining ROA samples at five, following by reducing fished and ROA video deployments to three and ultimately two. P(MC) denotes Monte Carlo permutations. Significant values are highlighted in bold.