Table 5. Correlations between sediment and macrofauna; SL sandlickers, SSD subsurface deposit feeders; *P<0.05, **P<0.01
| Depth | Fraction <63 µm | TOC tot | Ntot | C/Ntot | TOC<63µm | N<63µm | C/N<63µm |
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Total macrofauna abundance |
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Species number |
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Abundance SL | **(−) | **(−) | **(−) | **(−) | **(−) |
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Species number SL | **(−) | **(−) | *(−) | * (−) | **(−) | * (+) |
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Abundance SSD | **(+) |
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Species number SSD | **(+) |
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| *(−) | **(−) | **(+) |