How microbiomes can help inform conservation: landscape characterisation of gut microbiota helps shed light on additional population structure in a specialist folivore

Table 1 Table denoting the number of samples used in each analysis

Location	Samples collected (pre-filtering)	Taxonomic composition of microbiota (post-filtering)	Landscape analyses
			Location microbial diversity (after rarefaction)	Location host genetic differentiation (post-filtering)^†	Pairwise mantel tests
			Location microbial diversity (after rarefaction)	Location host genetic differentiation (post-filtering)^†	M versus Geo distance	M versus G distance
Noosa	26	26	26	30	26	2
Sunshine Coast	11	8	8	12	8	3
Redland	41	36	36	30	36	25
Minjerribah	18	18	18	30	18	7
Total	96	88	88	102	88	37

M = microbial, Geo = geographic, G = genetic
^†Additional koala DNA samples used for robust population genetic (F_st) calculations

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