Physicochemical Process, Crustacean, and Microcystis Biomass Changes In Situ Enclosure after Introduction of Silver Carp at Meiliang Bay, Lake Taihu

Table 3

Pearson (upper-right corner) and Spearman’s rank (lower-left corner) correlation coefficients (r) between variables. TP: total phosphorus, TN: total nitrogen, NO₃: nitrate, NH₄: ammonia, MC: Microcystis, : Secchi depth, and Chla: chlorophyll-a.

	TP	TN	NO3	NH4	MC	pH		Chla
TP		0.57	0.13	0.10	0.21	0.03	0.00	0.01
TN	−0.07		0.86	0.84	0.18	0.14	0.16	0.10
NO3	−0.49	0.21		0.01	0.17	0.45	0.63	0.05
NH4	0.03	−0.03	0.37		0.89	0.34	0.88	0.07
MC	0.54	−0.16	−0.10	0.40		0.01	0.00	0.32
pH	0.04	−0.29	0.31	0.30	0.36		0.76	0.44
	−0.33	0.21	−0.22	−0.11	−0.47	−0.43		0.01
Chla	0.43	0.20	0.35	0.27	0.44	0.72	−0.54