*4.5. Statistics*

All statistical analyses were performed using R version 3.5.3 [31] and packages reshape [32], ggplot2 [32], rstatix [33], ade4 [34], factoextra [35] and cowplot [36] for data processing and visualisation. Raw GC-FID text file data together with in-house R script for data processing, univariate and multivariate statistics as well as figures are available at github repository: https: //github.com/Hubas-prog/Paradendryphiella\_traject.
