Hydrodynamic Conditions Effects on Soft-Bottom Subtidal Nearshore Benthic Community Structure and Distribution

Table 5

Results of distance-based linear model (DISTLM) to assess the effect of environmental parameters on benthic community structure, considering forward selection of variables. %Var: percentage of variance in species data explained by that variable; Cumul. (%): cumulative percentage of variance explained.

Variables	Pseudo-F	-value	%Var	Cumul. (%)
Hsmax	6.26	0.001	47	47
+OM	1.74	0.106	12	59
+D50	1.19	0.322	8	67
+So	1.66	0.174	10	77