Community-level analyses were generally supportive of findings
described above for subsets of species. That is, we were also
unable to detect a change in fish species composition that could
be attributed to mangrove trimming (H5). Nonmetric multidimensional
scaling did not indicate that the species composition of the
trimmed plots was readily differentiated from the control or pretrimming
plots (Fig. 3; ANOSIM p-values = 0.80–0.99). Similarly,
two-way repeated measures analysis of the Bray–Curtis study plot
similarities provided no indication that mangrove trimming had
impacted the species composition of the fish community (Table 1).