Planktonic Rotifers in a Subtropical Shallow Lake: Succession, Relationship to Environmental Factors, and Use as Bioindicators

Table 4

Correlations between the diversity indices, including the Shannon-Wiener index (𝐻^′), species richness (𝑅), evenness index (𝐽), Margalef’s index (𝐷_Mg), total rotifer density (𝑁), and environmental factors.

	𝐻^′	𝐽	𝐷Mg	𝑅	𝑁	Chl.a	TN	TP	Tem
𝐻^′	1	𝟎.𝟕𝟎𝟓	𝟎.𝟕𝟔𝟖	𝟎.𝟕𝟎𝟐	0.316	𝟎.𝟑𝟒𝟒	0.165	0.238	𝟎.𝟒𝟑𝟓
		<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.053	𝟎.𝟎𝟑𝟕	0.342	0.168	𝟎.𝟎𝟎𝟔
𝐽	𝟎.𝟕𝟎𝟓	1	0.138	0.019	−0.204	0.054	0.082	0.048	0.079
	<0.0001		0.410	0.909	0.219	0.753	0.638	0.783	0.636
𝐷Mg	0.768	0.138	1	𝟎.𝟗𝟓𝟕	𝟎.𝟓𝟎𝟓	𝟎.𝟑𝟔𝟓	0.242	𝟎.𝟑𝟖𝟎	𝟎.𝟒𝟓𝟏
	<0.0001	0.410		<0.0001	𝟎.𝟎𝟎𝟏	𝟎.𝟎𝟐𝟕	0.161	𝟎.𝟎𝟐𝟒	𝟎.𝟎𝟎𝟓
𝑅	𝟎.𝟕𝟎𝟐	0.019	𝟎.𝟗𝟓𝟕	1	𝟎.𝟕𝟏𝟔	𝟎.𝟒𝟒𝟐	0.093	0.256	𝟎.𝟒𝟗𝟎
	<0.0001	0.909	<0.0001		<0.0001	𝟎.𝟎𝟎𝟔	0.594	0.138	𝟎.𝟎𝟎𝟐