Research Article

Community-Level Response of Fishes and Aquatic Macroinvertebrates to Stream Restoration in a Third-Order Tributary of the Potomac River, USA

Table 1

Significant Pearson’s correlation coefficients and associated permutational values (1000 randomizations) for relations between fish Daniels et al. [19] and macroinvertebrate indices of biotic integrity metrics and nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination for the communities sampled during the summers of 2009 and 2010 from the Cacapon River, WVa, USA.

CommunityMetricVector value

MacroinvertebratePercent chironomidae0.5800.044
Percent dominant 2 taxa0.5840.040
Hilsenhoff Biotic Index0.9310.001
Abundance0.6640.025
FishPercent anomalies0.7060.001