Table 3 PERMANOVA test of the influence of environmental variables on mite species communities in CCA reduced space. AIC₀ refers to the null model (unconstrained analysis)

Mean temperature of previous month

temp_prev

1

0.04458

10.6372

0.001

Mean temperature of sampling month

temp_cur

1

0.02908

6.9382

0.001

Mean precipitation of previous month

prec_prev

1

0.01395

3.3291

0.001

Mean precipitation of sampling month

prec_cur

1

0.01834

4.3748

0.001

Residual

227

0.95139

–

–

AIC

759.22

AIC₀

775.72

Adj. R²

0.08