TABLE 1.

Median, range, and Spearman rank order correlation coefficients for Arctic wintertime sea-ice chemical and bacterial variables (n = 16) scaled to ice volume

Variable (U)a	Median (range)	r value for the following cellsb:
		Total	ARC	FL	ATT
DOC (mg of C liter−1)	2.88 (1.37-69.2)	0.59	0.50	0.54	0.55
POC (mg of C liter−1)	0.265 (0.0226-28.4)	0.83**	0.70*	0.57	0.72*
PON (mg of N liter−1)	0.045 (0.0018-3.6)	0.85**	0.74**	0.61	0.76**
PIM (mg liter−1)	4.04 (0.400-1,090)	0.91**	0.87**	0.75**	0.85**
POM (mg liter−1)	2.64 (0.00-124)	0.71**	0.72**	0.52	0.69**
Total cells (104 ml−1)	7.97 (1.60-301)		0.89**	0.73**	0.91**
ARC (103 ml−1)	1.97 (0.161-55.4)			0.58	0.82**
FL cells (104 ml−1)	4.23 (1.41-31.9)				0.61
ATT cells (104 ml−1)	2.53 (0.193-291)

^aFL, free living; ATT, attached.

^b*, P< 0.01; **, P < 0.001.