Aquatic Biosystems

Table 5 Pearson correlation coefficients (r) of the environmental influence on community-wide metrics

From: Loss of trophic complexity in saline prairie lakes as indicated by stable-isotope based community-metrics

	CR	NR	TA	CD	NND
Variables	r
Salinity	-0.57	-0.76	-0.78	-0.62	0.60
TKN	-0.52	-0.70	-0.72	-0.64	0.52
NH₄	-0.48	-0.40	-0.49	-0.48	0.02
TP	-0.25	-0.62	-0.53	-0.60	0.47
Chl a	-0.22	0.19	0.04	-0.19	-0.61
DOC	-0.42	-0.72	-0.68	-0.56	0.66
Fish complexity	0.65	0.74	0.83	0.72	-0.53

Bold denotes significance. See Table 4 for abbreviations of community metrics.

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