Identification of Fine-Scale Marine Benthic Ecoclines by Multiple Parallel Ordination

Table 8

Matrix of Kendall’s correlation coefficients 𝜏 between pairs of environmental variables (upper right triangle) and corresponding P values for tests of the hypotheses that 𝜏 = 0 (lower left triangle). P values ≤ 0.10 and the corresponding τ values are shown in bold.

	BPI	Depth	Seabed_; curv	Current_; bottom	Direction_; curr_E	Direction_; curr_N	Current_; surface	Change_; curr_; bottom	Sed_; kurt	Sed_; med	Mud content	Med_; skew	Med_; sort	BMD	Penetration_; depth	TOC	TON	CN	VEAS_; dist
BPI	*****	−0.222	0.646	0.079	−0.164	0.185	−0.127	0.201	0.164	−0.133	0.190	0.163	−0.032	−0.141	0.077	−0.223	−0.100	−0.138	0.106
Depth	0.101	*****	−0.175	0.074	0.051	−0.067	0.481	−0.090	−0.213	0.032	−0.111	−0.184	−0.151	0.407	0.131	0.340	0.387	−0.271	−0.439
Seabed_; curv	<0.001	0.201	*****	0.053	0.078	0.319	−0.153	0.090	0.223	−0.154	0.143	0.019	−0.211	−0.222	−0.051	−0.069	0.014	−0.048	0.101
Current_; bottom	0.570	0.597	0.710	*****	−0.073	0.233	−0.201	0.286	−0.110	0.159	−0.138	−0.104	0.032	−0.092	−0.029	0.160	0.089	0.005	0.254
Direction_; curr_E	0.227	0.707	0.566	0.593	*****	0.319	0.089	−0.116	0.077	0.003	−0.121	−0.234	−0.239	−0.041	0.027	0.349	0.187	0.256	0.024
Direction_; curr_N	0.172	0.621	0.018	0.085	0.020	*****	−0.120	0.297	0.316	−0.244	0.174	0.095	−0.252	−0.129	0.022	0.089	0.060	0.078	0.142
Current_; surface	0.356	<0.001	0.263	0.139	0.513	0.373	*****	−0.090	−0.105	0.011	−0.079	−0.136	−0.070	0.206	0.045	0.383	0.338	−0.080	−0.524
Change_; curr_bottom	0.139	0.518	0.518	0.034	0.394	0.028	0.518	*****	0.202	−0.265	0.196	0.158	−0.232	−0.173	−0.045	−0.101	−0.149	0.111	0.196
Sed_kurt	0.227	0.117	0.100	0.416	0.578	0.021	0.440	0.137	*****	−0.567	0.568	0.457	−0.256	−0.342	−0.152	−0.043	−0.061	0.067	0.073
Sed_med	0.323	0.813	0.252	0.236	0.984	0.072	0.937	0.048	<0.001	*****	−0.796	−0.522	0.450	0.114	−0.040	0.176	0.209	−0.005	−0.048
Mudcontent	0.162	0.421	0.298	0.317	0.373	0.198	0.570	0.150	<0.001	<0.001	*****	0.724	−0.249	−0.076	0.136	−0.277	−0.257	−0.095	0.005
Sed_skew	0.227	0.172	0.890	0.440	0.088	0.488	0.313	0.243	0.001	<0.001	<0.001	*****	0.041	−0.014	0.248	−0.352	−0.268	−0.158	−0.040
Sed_sort	0.812	0.267	0.122	0.812	0.084	0.067	0.606	0.088	0.064	0.001	0.068	0.766	*****	0.122	0.136	−0.125	−0.036	−0.114	−0.038
BMD	0.302	0.003	0.104	0.500	0.765	0.350	0.132	0.204	0.014	0.404	0.578	0.921	0.381	*****	0.534	0.090	0.258	−0.514	−0.385
Penetration_; depth	0.566	0.332	0.707	0.828	0.843	0.874	0.737	0.737	0.266	0.767	0.313	0.068	0.321	<0.001	*****	−0.013	−0.011	−0.228	−0.152
TOC	0.097	0.011	0.607	0.235	0.011	0.513	0.004	0.452	0.751	0.192	0.040	0.009	0.361	0.512	0.921	*****	0.667	0.000	−0.277
TON	0.463	0.005	0.921	0.513	0.176	0.662	0.013	0.275	0.662	0.126	0.059	0.052	0.796	0.064	0.937	<0.001	*****	−0.361	−0.306
CN	0.304	0.044	0.722	0.968	0.060	0.566	0.553	0.406	0.620	0.968	0.477	0.243	0.405	<0.001	0.092	1.000	0.008	*****	0.207
VEAS_dist	0.445	0.001	0.468	0.060	0.858	0.294	<0.001	0.150	0.593	0.722	0.984	0.767	0.781	0.005	0.259	0.040	0.025	0.123	*****