Effect of Environmental Stressors on the Distribution and Abundance of Macroinvertebrates in Upper Awash River at Chilimo Forest, West Shewa, Ethiopia

Table 4

Bivariate Spearman correlation between benthic macroinvertebrates indices and some physicochemical parameters.

Env’t Par	%Chiro	SDI	Evenness	%EPT	H-FBI	ETHbios
Conductivity (μS/cm)	0.800	−0.900	−0.900	−0.900	0.800	−0.800
Dissolved oxygen (mg/L)	−0.738	0.580	0.580	0.791	−0.738	0.949
Water temperature (C°)	0.900	−0.800	−0.800	−0.800	0.900	−0.900
TP (mg/L)	0.154	0.154	−0.154	−0.667	0.154	−0.667
No3^–N (mg/L)	0.205	−0.359	−0.359	−0.462	0.205	−0.308

Correlation is significant at 0.05 levels (2-tailed).