Is food supply for shellfish-eating birds in the western Wadden Sea affected by the between-species synchrony in year-to-year fluctuations of bivalve population parameters?

Table 4 Coefficients of between-species Spearman correlations in various years of the 1970–2017 period (n = 48) for their total biomass (in g AFDM m⁻²) in late winter

Statistical significance indicated by * (p < 0.05). Data for M. arenaria of < 5 cm between brackets

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