Functional diversity and secondary production of macrofaunal assemblages can provide insights of biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships

Wang, Zhe; Xu, Jing; Xu, Zhaodong; Liu, Xiaoshou

doi:10.1186/s12302-024-00889-7

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 4 Pearson correlation analysis of species diversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental factors in Jiaozhou Bay

From: Functional diversity and secondary production of macrofaunal assemblages can provide insights of biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships

	The abundance of Ruditapes philippinarum	The biomass of Ruditapes philippinarum	Secondary production	j_FD	FRic	FEve	FDiv	FDis	RaoQ
S	0.299	0.277	0.438	0.136	0.440	− 0.518	− 0.219	− 0.272	− 0.245
d	0.130	0.115	0.306	0.224	0.465	− 0.481	− 0.226	− 0.198	− 0.147
J′	− 0.901**	− 0.908**	− 0.647*	0.522	− 0.386	− 0.405	0.451	0.693^**	0.716^**
H'	− 0.796**	− 0.810**	− 0.785**	0.550^*	− 0.254	− 0.549^*	0.387	0.604^*	0.634^*
Water depth	− 0.352	− 0.360	− 0.413	0.223	− 0.278	− 0.712^**	0.433	0.293	0.254
Bottom water salinity	0.024	0.009	0.024	− 0.036	0.206	− 0.005	0.228	0.152	0.149
T	− 0.136	− 0.105	− 0.108	− 0.213	0.139	0.139	0.139	0.139	0.139
pH	− 0.165	− 0.163	− 0.066	− 0.029	− 0.030	0.070	− 0.073	0.064	0.091
Chl-a	0.214	0.228	0.172	0.453	0.117	0.224	− 0.377	− 0.332	− 0.377
Pha	0.032	0.011	0.113	0.247	0.033	0.255	0.072	0.156	0.141
Organic matter	− 0.218	− 0.226	− 0.291	0.021	− 0.343	0.323	0.306	0.343	0.375
Median diameter	0.126	0.142	0.183	− 0.133	− 0.004	0.192	− 0.113	− 0.093	− 0.137
Silty clay content	− 0.162	− 0.187	− 0.194	0.240	0.022	− 0.224	0.068	0.101	0.139
Secondary production	0.954**	0.953**	1	− 0.289	0.720**	0.319	− 0.741**	− 0.849**	− 0.834**
j_FD	− 0.312	− 0.350	− 0.289	1	− 0.021	− 0.381	− 0.027	0.166	0.140
FRic	0.575*	0.591*	0.720**	− 0.021	1	0.276	− 0.725^**	− 0.644^*	− 0.550^*
FEve	0.328	0.355	0.319	− 0.381	0.276	1	− 0.427	− 0.334	− 0.291
FDiv	− 0.674**	− 0.694**	− 0.741**	− 0.027	− 0.725^**	− 0.427	1	0.921^**	0.881^**
FDis	− 0.855**	− 0.875**	− 0.849**	0.166	− 0.644^*	− 0.334	0.921^**	1	0.988^**
RaoQ	− 0.864**	− 0.879**	− 0.834**	0.140	− 0.550^*	− 0.291	0.881^**	0.988^**	1

FRic functional richness, FEve functional evenness, FDiv functional divergence, FDis functional dispersion, RaoQ Rao’s quadratic entropy, S is the number of macrofaunal species of each site, d species richness index, J' species evenness index, H' Shannon–Wiener index, j_FD the feeding evenness index
^**Means correlation is significant at the 0.01 level
^*Means correlation is significant at the 0.05 level

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