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I am currently confused as to which stats test to use. I am checking for the number of species orders found between managed and unmanaged dune slacks. I have already done a Simpson's index for diversity, but I assumed that for this assignment I would also need to do a significance test. I did an ANOVA and Tukey test, and no significant difference found in either. I am wondering if I am supposed to see no significant difference, and just leave it at that or whether or not doing it wrong and that I am supposed to do a different type of test. I hope this makes sense.

Any suggestions welcome, thanks for reading :)

The data (in case my screenshots haven't attached) is as follows (I had to post the unmanaged underneath as it wouldn't paste properly):

Order   Managed dune slack
Araneae     39
Coleoptera      23
Collembola*    15
Diptera              50
Gastropoda      17
Hemiptera       68
Hymenoptera  75
Lepidoptera        52
Neuroptera      4
Orthoptera        1

Unmanaged dune slack
86
2
1
16
2
20
14
24
0
0

What are you trying to accomplish here? If you want to simply find a significance between Managed dune slack vs UNManaged dune slack (the main groups) without taking into account the species, then do a paired t-test. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fSCQqvDcE