Table 1. Summary statistics for preferred model fits.

A series of models with associated Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC) indices are reported along with parameters estimates for intercept “α” and slope “β”, their respective standard error, and p-values (* indicates p < 0.05).

Species	AIC	Parameter	Estimate ± SE	p-value
TN	69.709	α	-10.9993 ± 4.6259	0.0174*
		βWspe	0.8795 ± 0.3004	0.0034*
		βChl-a	6.1791 ± 3.1823	0.0521
		βSST	0.2255 ± 0.1221	0.0648
KB	45.666	α	-4.1109 ± 1.9254	0.0328*
		βWspe	0.6108 ± 0.2916	0.0362*
		βChl-a	5.0874 ± 2.1536	0.0182*
KS	61.336	α	-1.0270 ± 3.9640	0.0096*
		βWspe	0.8632 ± 0.3226	0.0074*
		βSST	0.2622 ± 0.1076	0.0148*
		βdepth	0.00039 ± 0.00026	0.1322