Zooplankton community and hydrographical properties of the Neretva Channel (eastern Adriatic Sea)

Vidjak, Olja; Bojanić, Natalia; Kušpilić, Grozdan; Ninčević Gladan, Živana; Tičina, Vjekoslav

doi:10.1007/s10152-007-0074-7

Helgoland Marine Research

Table 4 Spearman rank order correlations between main micro and mesozooplankton groups or species abundances and abiotic and biotic factors

From: Zooplankton community and hydrographical properties of the Neretva Channel (eastern Adriatic Sea)

Factor	Temperature				Salinity				Chl a
Station	S-1	S-2	S-3	S-4	S-1	S-2	S-3	S-4	S-1	S-2	S-3	S-4
Non-loricate ciliates	0.274	0.106	0.025	−0.105	−0.305*	−0.500***	−0.499***	−0.486***	0.233	0.144	0.219	0.245
Tinntinides	0.060	0.219	0.051	0.241	−0.148	0.041	−0.099	−0.110	0.157	−0.156	0.084	0.168
Nauplii	0.452**	0.353*	0.260	0.586***	−0.040	−0.030	−0.273	−0.240	0.192	0.002	0.174	−0.024
Juvenile copepods	0.364**	0.373*	0.288	0.302*	0.251	0.048	−0.051	−0.153	0.215	0.131	0.130	0.290
Adult small copepods	0.335*	0.085	0.166	0.273	0.294	0.064	−0.146	−0.176	0.142	0.005	0.124	0.181
Total mesozooplankton	0.155	0.527	−0.182	0.297	−0.309	−0.173	−0.936***	−0.564	−0.082	−0.309	−0.028	0.164
Copepoda	0.063	0.364	−0.096	−0.030	−0.227	−0.400	−0.952***	−0.539	0.000	−0.246	0.069	0.358
Calanoida	0.172	0.227	0.118	0.030	−0.181	−0.418	−0.764*	−0.733*	−0.200	−0.263	−0.055	0.430
Paracalanus parvus	0.442	0.262	−0.173	−0.261	0.000	−0.474	−0.700*	−0.588	0.539	0.381	0.412	0.S−3
Ctenocalanus vanus	−0.733*	−0.312	−0.737*	−0.496	−0.263	−0.576	0.042	−0.176	0.357	−0.227	−0.149	−0.132
Temora stylifera	0.682*	0.888***	0.820**	0.505	0.291	0.260	−0.194	0.140	−0.364	−0.478	−0.451	−0.413
Temora longicornis	−0.684*	−0.581	−0.783**	−0.718*	−0.347	−0.129	−0.029	−0.032	0.305	0.258	0.023	0.032
Acartia clausi	−0.069	0.483	0.222	−0.489	−0.633*	−0.479	−0.120	−0.345	0.396	0.423	−0.009	0.207
Centropages typicus	−0.092	0.035	−0.062	0.081	−0.422	−0.238	−0.019	0.012	0.881***	0.397	−0.019	0.156
calanoid copepodids	0.018	0.245	0.118	−0.079	−0.145	0.027	−0.682*	−0.699*	−0.351	−0.636*	0.009	0.523
Cyclopoida	−0.309	0.181	−0.163	−0.188	−0.045	−0.046	−0.327	−0.224	0.290	0.109	0.110	0.479
Oithona similis	−0.386	−0.352	−0.629*	−0.841**	−0.745*	−0.071	−0.305	−0.080	0.413	−0.141	0.161	0.190
Oithona nana	0.518	0.491	0.482	0.486	0.073	−0.009	−0.536	−0.322	0.136	−0.391	−0.046	0.127
Oithona copepodids	−0.800**	−0.227	−0.639*	−0.389	−0.082	−0.245	−0.068	0.061	0.246	0.300	0.341	0.237
Poecilostomatoida	0.227	0.618*	−0.273	−0.091	−0.009	−0.218	−0.700*	0.248	0.045	−0.309	−0.028	−0.673*
Oncaea media complex	0.391	0.527	−0.246	−0.030	0.018	−0.245	−0.682*	0.455	0.200	−0.190	−0.009	−0.782*
Monothula subtilis	−0.507	−0.912***	−0.705*	−0.830**	−0.082	0.009	−0.211	−0.032	−0.059	−0.004	−0.021	−0.188
Harpacticoida	−0.336	0.073	0.055	−0.091	−0.290	−0.182	−0.727*	−0.588	−0.273	−0.436	−0.467	0.127
Euterpina acutifrons	−0.400	0.063	−0.018	−0.067	−0.327	−0.209	−0.691*	−0.530	−0.254	−0.445	−0.505	0.S-4
Cladocera	0.646*	0.809**	0.636*	0.830**	−0.082	−0.046	−0.291	0.018	0.209	−0.136	0.009	0.163
Appendicularia	0.418	0.890***	0.906***	0.707*	0.155	0.300	0.114	0.085	−0.173	−0.618*	−0.202	0.061
Thaliacea	0.344	0.724*	0.544	0.320	0.160	0.284	−0.188	−0.086	0.354	−0.248	0.180	0.708*
Chaetognatha	0.255	0.187	0.288	0.232	0.283	−0.159	−0.467	0.379	0.109	−0.447	−0.115	0.196
Pteropoda	0.539	0.549	0.369	0.350	0.247	0.608*	−0.318	0.171	−0.283	−0.490	−0.097	−0.172
Larvae	−0.436	−0.154	−0.477	−0.527	0.009	−0.091	−0.541	−0.515	−0.200	−0.327	−0.148	0.091

N = 44 for temperature, salinity and microzooplankton data; N = 33 for chlorophyll a; N = 11 for mesozooplankton data
*P < 0.05; **P < 0.005; ***P < 0.001 (significant correlations are printed in bold)

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