Table 7. Spearman's rank correlations between the status of each compartment (boxes 1 through 13 and SRDI), the other compartments (boxes) and the EBQI (see Table 5).

	1.Rhizomes	2. Leaves	3–4. Leaf epibiota	5. Pinna	6. HOM LOM	7. Litter	8. Holothuria	9. Herbivores	10. Predators	11. Piscivores	9–12 (SRDI)	12. Planktivores	13. Sea birds
1. Rhizomes	-
2. Leaves	0.44	-
3–4. Leaf epibiota	0.03	0.41	-
5. Pinna	0.71	0.64	0.02	-
6. HOM-LOM	0.57	0.33	−0.02	0.63	-
7. Litter	0.44	0.55	0.29	0.48	0.51	-
8. Holothuria	0.27	0.27	0.20	−0.09	−0.08	0.44	-
9. Herbivores	0.07	0.03	0.20	−0.08	0.23	0.67	0.46	-
10. Predators	−0.02	0.23	0.29	0.37	0.36	0.34	0.02	0.24	-
11. Piscivores	0.22	0.30	0.33	0.51	0.46	0.42	−0.22	0.10	0.73	-
12. Planktivores	0.18	0.28	0.38	0.34	0.24	0.34	0.05	0.06	0.48	0.62	-
9–12 (SRDI)	0.16	0.32	0.30	0.56	0.59	0.41	−0.02	0.29	0.85	0.60	0.46	-
13. Sea birds	0.37	0.22	0.37	0.12	0.19	0.36	0.30	0.26	0.20	0.18	0.08	0.19	-
EBQI	0.45	0.69	0.50	0.72	0.55	0.78	0.24	0.40	0.69	0.65	0.54	0.77	0.47

Bold italic characters: significant (p<0.01).