Planktonic Foraminifera as Oceanographic Proxies: Comparison of Biogeographic Classifications Using Some Southwest Pacific Core-Top Faunas

Table 1

Relationships between faunas in sediment traps and nearby core-top samples. NCR and SCR data are from King and Howard [25]. Trap 1-2, TAN0307, and SO136 data are from Northcote and Neil [26]. Pearson 𝑟 measures linear relationship in quantitative data; Kendall tau measures monotonic relationship in ranked data. Taxa that did not occur in either sample were excluded from the data.

	Kendall tau	Prob. tau = 0	Pearson 𝑟	Prob. 𝑟=0
NCR300:NCR1000	0.67	3.65𝐸−04	0.99	5.03𝐸−13
NCR1000:Site #8	0.28	0.144	0.98	1.23𝐸−11
NCR1000:Site #7	0.36	0.068	0.91	1.17𝐸−06
SCR300:SCR1000	0.66	0.004	0.87	1.97𝐸−04
SCR300:Site #12	0.55	0.037	0.63	0.052
SCR1000:Site #12	0.82	4.65𝐸−04	0.91	5.18𝐸−05
Trap 1:Trap 2	0.64	0.001	0.55	0.034
Trap 1:Site #21	0.56	0.023	0.35	0.287
Trap 1:Site #24	0.46	0.051	0.43	0.158
Trap 1:Site #25	0.41	0.098	0.42	0.201
Trap 1:Site #27	0.34	0.181	0.28	0.412
Trap 1:TAN0307	0.37	0.173	0.11	0.761
Trap 2:SO136	0.37	0.045	0.06	0.804
Trap 2:Site #24	0.65	0.002	0.26	0.346