Benthic infaunal community structuring in an acidified tropical estuarine system

Aquatic Biosystems

Table 3 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (r) between environmental and community variables estimated for all species

Variables	Number of species (S)	Density (D)	Richness (d)	Diversity (H’)	Evenness (J’)
Salinity	0.648****	0.279*	0.573****	0.446***	0.010 ns
pH	0.637***	0.315*	0.562****	0.492***	0.118 ns
Sand	0.114 ns	0.018 ns	0.150 ns	0.0565 ns	0.007 ns
Silt	−0.114 ns	−0.018 ns	−0.150 ns	−0.0565 ns	−0.007 ns
Clay	−0.451***	−0.107 ns	−0.450****	−0.349**	−0.096 ns
OM	−0.570****	−0.030 ns	−0.581****	−0.390**	−0.056 ns