TABLE 1. Percentages of variance and cumulative variance for the first ten PCs corresponding to the three evaluated settings: VMM 56-SL, VMM 44-SL, and OBM.
| VMM | (56-SL) | VMM | (44-SL) | OBM | ||
| #PC | %Var | Ac.Var | %Var | Ac.Var | %Var | Ac.Var |
| 1 | 68.29 | 68.29 | 70.15 | 70.15 | 66.54 | 66.54 |
| 2 | 19.89 | 88.18 | 17.47 | 87.62 | 27.87 | 94.41 |
| 3 | 5.59 | 93.77 | 6.01 | 93.63 | 2.59 | 97.00 |
| 4 | 3.12 | 96.89 | 3.15 | 96.77 | 1.42 | 98.42 |
| 5 | 1.41 | 98.30 | 1.57 | 98.35 | 0.57 | 98.99 |
| 6 | 0.94 | 99.24 | 0.97 | 99.32 | 0.28 | 99.27 |
| 7 | 0.43 | 99.67 | 0.32 | 99.64 | 0.16 | 99.43 |
| 8 | 0.18 | 99.85 | 0.22 | 99.86 | 0.11 | 99.54 |
| 9 | 0.08 | 99.92 | 0.09 | 99.95 | 0.04 | 99.58 |
| 10 | 0.07 | 100.00 | 0.05 | 100.00 | 0.02 | 99.60 |
TABLE 2. Results of the Pearson correlation tests performed to evaluate the correlations between each of the three first PCs respectively corresponding to the three evaluated settings (VMM 56-SL, VMM 44-SL, and OBM). The values of the correlation coefficient (ρ) for all possible pair comparisons are provided.
| PC1 | VMM (44-SL) | OBM |
| VMM (44-SL) | 1.000 | 0.941 |
| VMM (56-SL) | 0.992 | 0.953 |
| PC2 | VMM (44-SL) | OBM |
| VMM (44-SL) | 1.000 | 0.899 |
| VMM (56-SL) | 0.985 | 0.952 |
| PC3 | VMM (44-SL) | OBM |
| VMM (44-SL) | 1.000 | 0.059 |
| VMM (56-SL) | 0.991 | 0.064 |
TABLE 3. Results of Mantel tests to evaluate the correlation between the bidimensional (PC1 and PC2) and three-dimensional morphospaces (PC1, PC2, and PC3) for each setting. Ρ is the Mantel correlating statistic.
| PC1 + PC2 | Ρ | p-value |
| VMM (44-SL) vs. VMM (56-SL) | 0.990 | <0.05 |
| VMM (44-SL) vs. OBM | 0.866 | <0.05 |
| VMM (56-SL) vs. OBM | 0.895 | <0.05 |
| PC1+PC2+PC3 | Ρ | p -value |
| VMM (44-SL) vs. VMM (56-SL) | 0.990 | <0.05 |
| VMM (44-SL) vs. OBM | 0.866 | <0.05 |
| VMM (56-SL) vs. OBM | 0.895 | <0.05 |
TABLE 4. Results of the two-block PLS analyses showing the relationships between pairs of multidimensional morphospaces, r-PLS is the correlation value, Z is the regression coefficient.
| r-PLS | Z | p-value | |
| VMM (44-SL) vs. VMM (56-SL) | 0.997 | 6.0331 | <0.05 |
| VMM (44-SL) vs. OBM | 0.958 | 5.5997 | <0.05 |
| VMM (56-SL) vs. OBM | 0.959 | 5.4915 | <0.05 |
