Results of the one-way ANOSIM (global and pairwise tests) for the MDS performed with all samples collected.

Differences between samples collected during periods of intense upwelling (IU), weak upwelling (WU) and downwelling (D) were assessed. The statistic estimated for each permutation is significant when its value is greater than or equal to the sample statistic. Significance level is calculated as the percentage of significant statistics in the total number of permutations used. R: Sample statistic.