Table 2 Slopes, intercepts, correlation coefficient (r ² values) and significance (F and P values of correlations between the abundance of the five most dominant bivalves and species that showed significant correlations (P < 0.05, bold) with the density of E. directus (m⁻²) (N = 28 stations)

0.004

4.65

0.17

5.38_1,27

0.03

−8.73^E−05

11.36

4.68^E−05

0.001_1,27

0.97

0.001

3.39

0.04

1.20_1,27

0.28

−1.89^E−04

5.51

0.006

0.17_1,27

0.68

0.06

−12.12

0.85

152.54_1,27

<0.01

0.18

−72.16

0.85

156.84_1,27

<0.01

0.01

3.91

0.61

43.02_1,27

<0.01

0.01

4.03

0.52

29.54_1,27

<0.01