Identification of Fine-Scale Marine Benthic Ecoclines by Multiple Parallel Ordination

Table 7

Kendall’s rank correlations between selected important environmental variables, calculated separately for subsets of sites near the positive (Subset+; 𝑛=8; upper triangle) and negative ends (Subset−; 𝑛=22; lower triangle) of the main coenocline (DCA1). Sites 4 and 6 are included in both subsets. Correlation coefficients between variables strongly correlated with depth in Subset+ are shown in bold. See Table 2 for description of environmental variables.

	Depth	BMD	Penetration depth	CN	Sed_med	Mud content	TN	TOC
Depth	*****	0.43	0.36	−0.57	−0.71	0.71	0.47	0.36
BMD	0.28	*****	0.93	−0.29	−0.29	0.14	0.11	0.07
Penetration_depth	−0.16	0.38	*****	−0.21	−0.36	0.21	0.04	0.00
CN	−0.17	−0.55	−0.12	*****	0.43	−0.57	−0.33	−0.21
Sed_med	0.14	0.38	0.19	−0.26	*****	−0.86	−0.26	−0.21
Mud content	−0.26	−0.30	−0.01	0.11	−0.68	*****	0.33	0.21
TN	0.31	0.28	−0.12	−0.38	0.35	−0.44	*****	0.91
TOC	0.23	0.04	−0.12	0.09	0.25	−0.41	0.56	*****