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Table 3.

Correlation coefficients (r) between water quality parameters and biogeochemical variables. Values marked with asterisk or cross are statically significant at P < 0.05 and P < 0.01 respectively. The rest of values are not significant.

Node 09 Node 89	Sal.	D.O. (mg/L)	Fluor. (r.u)	Turbid. (FNU)	NO_x (μM)	PO₄ (μM)	SiO₂ (μM)	CHL (μM/L)	TSS (mg/L)
Temp. (°C)	0.25 ⁺	−0.60 ⁺	0.01	−0.37 ⁺	−0.22	0.003	0.14	0.03	−0.28
	0.40 ⁺	−0.69 ⁺	0.34 ⁺	−0.22 ⁺	0.26	−0.30	0.29	0.18	−0.37
Salinity		−0.09 ⁺	0.09	−0.05 ⁺	−0.42 *	−0.15	−0.80 *	0.08	−0.14
Salinity		−0.03 ⁺	0.25 ⁺	−0.47 ⁺	−0.39	−0.53 *	−0.29	0.16	−0.78 ⁺
D.O. (mg/L)			−0.21 ⁺	−0.004	0.39 *	−0.06	−0.04	−0.05	0.18
			0.05 ⁺	−0.02 ⁺	0.03	0.11	0.11	0.05	−0.06
Fluor. (r.u)				0.60 ⁺	0.16	0.35	−0.04	0.45 *	0.51 ⁺
				−0.10 ⁺	−0.1	−0.31	−0.14	0.09	−0.31
Turbidity (FNU)					0.67 ⁺	−0.21	0.13	−0.21	0.56 ⁺
					0.25	0.24	0.12	−0.24	0.76 ⁺
NO_x (μM)						−0.13	0.12	0.02	0.67⁺
						0.54 *	0.97 ⁺	0.04	⁺ 0.22
PO₄ (μM)							0.31	0.43 *	−0.04
							0.47 *	0.40	0.54 *
SiO₂ (μM)								0.01	−0.14
								−0.01	0.09
CHL (μM/L)									0.29
									0.14