TABLE 4.

Spearman rank correlations among abundances of the nine most abundant bacterial groups and the dissolved nutrients and eutrophication indicators^a

Group	Correlationa
	Heter. bact.	Chl-α concn	DP concn	DN concn	DOC concn
Pelagibacteraceae	−0.917**	−0.705**	NS	−0.793**	−0.766**
SAR86	−0.670**	NS	NS	−0.613*	−0.653**
Alteromonadaceae	0.884**	0.737**	NS	0.745**	0.697**
Rhodobacteraceae	0.693**	0.552*	NS	0.721**	0.556*
Cryomorphaceae	0.697**	0.556*	NS	NS	0.585*
Flavobacteriaceae	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Synechococcaceae	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
OM60	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Colwelliaceae	NS	NS	NS	NS	0.624*

^aHeter. bact., number of heterotrophic bacteria; Chl-α, chlorophyll alpha; DP, DN, and DOC, dissolved phosphorus, nitrogen, and organic carbon, respectively; NS, nonsignificant correlation. Coefficient values of the rho statistic in bold represent significant correlations at the 0.05 (*) or 0.01 (**) level.