Ecological characterization and molecular differentiation of Culex pipiens complex taxa and Culex torrentium in eastern Austria

Table 2 Environmental parameters tested using PERMANOVA based on distance matrices (adonis(): ‘vegan’ package, Oksanen et al. [39])

Ecological parameter	Df	SumsOfSqs	MeanSqs	F.Model	R2	Pr(>F)
Humidity	1	0.2248	0.22478	41.529	0.06851	0.066
Precipitation duration	1	0.3366	0.33657	62.182	0.10258	0.023*
Amount of precipitation	1	0.1949	0.19489	36.007	0.05940	0.078
Air temperature	1	0.5645	0.56455	104.302	0.17207	0.007**
Sunlight duration	1	0.4238	0.42382	78.301	0.12917	0.009**
Deciduous forest cover	1	0.1795	0.17945	33.154	0.05469	0.094
Green urban areas	1	0.1080	0.10797	19.949	0.03291	0.187
Danube water level	1	0.0325	0.03252	0.6008	0.00991	0.576
Humidity:Danube water level	1	0.0839	0.08393	15.506	0.02558	0.268
Precipitation duration:Danube waterlevel	1	0.0662	0.06617	12.225	0.02017	0.318
Amount of precipitation:Danube water level	1	0.4038	0.40379	74.601	0.12307	0.020*
Air temperature:Danube water levl	1	0.1570	0.15703	29.011	0.04786	0.102
Sunshine duration:Danube water level	1	0.1186	0.11865	21.920	0.03616	0.156
Deciduous forest cover:Danube water level	1	0.1394	0.13938	25.751	0.04248	0.135
Green urban areas:Danube water level	1	0.0310	0.03097	0.5722	0.00944	0.588
Residuals	4	0.2165	0.05413		0.06599
Total	19	32.810			100.000

Asterisks indicate significant effects of certain environmental parameters (*, P ≤ 0.05; **, P ≤ 0.01)

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