Sympatric Clupeoid Fish Larvae in the Northeastern Mediterranean: Coexistence or Avoidance?

Table 1

Results of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov analysis of round sardinella, Sardinella aurita, and European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus, larvae (log number + 1) with physical (temperature, SST, °C; salinity, SSS; dissolved oxygen, SSDO, mg L⁻¹) and station (depth, , m) variables. (DN: maximum distance between the cumulative distributions of the two samples, KS: two-sided Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic, : level of significance, and : sample size).

Variable		Anchovy larvae				Round sardinella larvae
		Preferred range	DN	KS		Preferred range	DN	KS
SST (°C)	21	<24.4, >25.4	0.200	0.632	0.818	>24.3	0.250	0.790	0.559
SSS	21	<32.5	0.263	0.811	0.541	<32.5	0.421	1.297	0.068
SSDO (mg L^−1)	21	7.85–8.30	0.217	0.737	0.648	7.90–8.65	0.260	0.884	0.419
(m)	24	>34	0.409	1.356	0.050	>42	0.545	1.809	0.002