marginally nonsignificantP = 0.054
The fungal community composition clustered significantly based on the carcass category (ANOSIM using a Jaccard’s distance matrix, R = 0.97, 999 permutations, P = 0.004), while alpha diversity (Shannon index) was marginally nonsignificant between tended and untended carcasses ( P = 0.054, nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis test, SI Appendix , Table S1 ).