The seaward limit of wave effects on coastal macrobenthos

Table 7 Correlations between species richness, diversity H′ and water depth (all data)

Group size	1,000		5,000		10,000
No. of cases	N = 540*		N = 134		N = 67
No. of cases	r²	p	r²	p	r²	p
Species richness versus H′	0.7080	0.0000	0.5911	0.0000	0.5337	0.0000
Species richness versus depth	0.0415	0.0000	0.0441	0.0149	0.0327	0.1428
H′ versus depth	0.2511	0.0000	0.3662	0.0000	0.4154	0.0000

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