Second-stage MDS ordination of resemblance matrices derived from species, genus, family, order and phylum abundance data at the two LTER sites: Valli di Comacchio lagoon (A) and Sacca di Goro lagoon (B). unt: untransformed data, sqr: square-root transformed, log: log-transfomed, pa: presence/absence data.

 
 
  Part of: Pitacco V, Mistri M, Infantini V, Sfriso A, Sfriso AA, Munari C (2019) Benthic studies in LTER sites: the use of taxonomy surrogates in the detection of long-term changes in lagoonal benthic assemblages. In: Mazzocchi MG, Capotondi L, Freppaz M, Lugliè A, Campanaro A (Eds) Italian Long-Term Ecological Research for understanding ecosystem diversity and functioning. Case studies from aquatic, terrestrial and transitional domains. Nature Conservation 34: 247-272. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.34.27610