Non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) plot of non-native bryozoan species composition from each of the sampled bays in North America (PAC-Pacific, ATL-Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico-GOM). Each point represents the composition of one bay (based on presence-absence data for non-native bryozoan taxa), with the distance between any two points representing the differences between those two bays’ communities as defined by the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity metric (closer = more similar). nMDS stress = 0.08.

 
 
  Part of: McCann LD, Hitchcock NG, Winston JE, Chang AL, Carlton JT, Ruiz GM (2025) Non-native marine and estuarine fouling bryozoans detected along North American Coasts: a twenty-year synthesis. In: Fowler A, Robinson T, Bortolus A, Canning-Clode J, Therriault T (Eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions. Aquatic Invasions 20(1): 101-125. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2025.20.1.135792