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Table 4 Combinations of sediment grain size and sediment thickness yielding the best matches of biotic and abiotic similarity matrices as measured by a Spearmans rank correlation (ρs)

From: Spatial and temporal dynamics of Antarctic shallow soft-bottom benthic communities: ecological drivers under climate change

No. variables ρ s Sediment properties P
1 0.664 AFDM % 0.001
2 0.662 AFDM %, Mud % 0.001
1 0.661 Mud % 0.001
3 0.648 Sand %, Mud%, AFDM % 0.001
2 0.63 Mud %, Sand % 0.001
3 0.622 Mud %, Sediment depth, AFDM % 0.001
  1. Relationships between sediment properties and the benthic assemblage calculated using PRIMER BEST Biota-environment (BIOENV) procedure
  2. AFDM ash free dry mass
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BMC Ecology

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