The influence of cultivation frequency on weed species composition and diversity in flood recession farming in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Ecological Processes

Table 1 A multi-response permutation procedure (MRPP) pairwise comparison for the species communities.

Groups compared	T	A	p
Cyndac-Bulhis vs. Sidcor-Cortri	− 38.6297913	0.071374	0.001
Cyndac-Bulhis vs. Gliopp-Helova	− 34.7072352	0.0659926	0.001
Cyndac-Bulhis vs. Sidalb-Abiang	− 20.8766535	0.0887329	0.001
Sidcor-Cortri vs. Gliopp-Helova	− 35.3593382	0.0470391	0.001
Sidcor-Cortri vs. Sidalb-Abiang	− 19.6246419	0.0481293	0.001
Gliopp-Helova vs. Sidalb-Abiang	− 20.4255302	0.0505249	0.001

Cyndac-Bulhis, Cynodon dactylon-Bulbostylis hispidula; Sidcor-Cortri, Sida cordifolia-Corchorus tridens; Sidalb-Abiang, Sida alba-Abutilon angulatum; and Gliopp-Helova, Glinus oppositifolius-Heliotropium ovalifolium