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Table 5.

Correlations between abundance and parameters for denitrifying genes in the streams.

	nirK	nirS	nosZ	nirK/nirS	nosZ/(nirK + nirS)
nirK	1
NirS	0.933^∗∗∗	1
nosZ	0.886^∗∗∗	0.770^∗∗∗	1
nirK/nirS	−0.011	−0. 225	−0. 1743	1
nosZ/(nirK + nirS)	0.349^∗	0.264	0.632^∗∗∗	−0. 396	1
DO	−0.513^∗∗∗	−0.411^∗	−0.420^∗	−0.175	−0.333
pH	0.111	0.201	0.244	0.019	0.021
Temp (°C)	−0.507^∗∗∗	−0.543^∗∗	−0.459^∗∗	0.357^∗	−0.378^∗
ORP	−0.582^∗∗∗	−0.649^∗∗∗	−0.525^∗∗	0.272	0.337^∗
NO₃ ⁻ (mg L⁻¹)	−0.394^∗	−0.519^∗∗	−0.449^∗∗∗	0.665^∗∗∗	−0.047
TN (mg L⁻¹)	0.709^∗∗∗	0.698^∗∗∗	0.676^∗∗∗	0.008	0.426^∗∗
PO₄ ³⁻ (mg L⁻¹)	0.868^∗∗∗	0.872^∗∗∗	0.875^∗∗∗	0.007	−0.334^∗
TP (mg L⁻¹)	0.560^∗∗∗	0.601^∗∗∗	0.601^∗∗∗	0.283	0.377^∗

∗ is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed); ∗∗ is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed); ∗∗∗ is significant at the 0.001 level (two-tailed).