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Table 1.

Correlations between the ecological parameters Rr, Dy and Co and the moving window methane production variation, determined by means of the Spearman rank order correlation analysis, for the CSTR_stable and CSTR_dynamic

CSTR_stable		Var CSTR_stable	Dy CSTR_stable	Co CSTR_stable	Rr CSTR_stable
Var CSTR_stable	Corr. Coeff	1.000	0.536	0.714^a	−0.548
Var CSTR_stable	Sign. level	–	0.215	0.047	0.160
Dy CSTR_stable	Corr. Coeff	0.536	1.000	0.607	−0.714
Dy CSTR_stable	Sign. level	0.215	–	0.148	0.071
Co CSTR_stable	Corr. Coeff	0.714^a	0.607	1.000	−0.857^a
Co CSTR_stable	Sign. level	0.047	0.148	–	0.007
Rr CSTR_stable	Corr. Coeff	−0.548	−0.714	−0.857^a	1.000
Rr CSTR_stable	Sign. level	0.160	0.071	0.007	–
CSTR_dynamic		Var CSTR_dynamic	Dy CSTR_dynamic	Co CSTR_dynamic	Rr CSTR_dynamic
Var CSTR_dynamic	Corr. Coeff	1.000	0.536	0.048	−0.286
Var CSTR_dynamic	Sign. level	–	0.215	0.911	0.493
Dy CSTR_dynamic	Corr. Coeff	0.536	1.000	0.357	−0.607
Dy CSTR_dynamic	Sign. level	0.215	–	0.432	0.148
Co CSTR_dynamic	Corr. Coeff	0.048	0.357	1.000	−0.833^a
Co CSTR_dynamic	Sign. level	0.911	0.432	–	0.010
Rr CSTR_dynamic	Corr. Coeff	−0.286	−0.607	−0.833^a	1.000
Rr CSTR_dynamic	Sign. level	0.493	0.148	0.010	–

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level.