Table 4. Percent variation explained by individual axes and relationships between dbRDA coordinate axes and orthonormal variables from Distance-based linear model (DistLM) of benthic fluxes against environmental drivers measured in the Salish Sea and NE Pacific in May/July 2011, and September 2013.
| Variation explained by individual axes (%) | Relationships between dbRDA coordinate axes and orthonormal X variables (multiple partial correlations) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explained variation out of fitted model (%) | Explained variation out of total variation (%) | Temp | Chl a: Phaeo | C:N | DO | MGS | Porosity | |||
| Axis | Ind. | Cumul. | Ind. | Cumul. | ||||||
| 1 | 41.42 | 41.42 | 21.35 | 21.35 | 0.732 | 0.197 | -0.091 | 0.539 | -0.355 | -0.026 |
| 2 | 33.04 | 74.47 | 17.03 | 38.37 | 0.098 | 0.888 | 0.046 | -0.262 | 0.268 | 0.244 |
| 3 | 14.47 | 88.93 | 7.46 | 45.83 | -0.022 | 0.069 | -0.850 | -0.374 | -0.349 | -0.101 |
| 4 | 7.14 | 96.07 | 3.68 | 49.51 | -0.331 | 0.264 | 0.415 | -0.101 | -0.784 | -0.152 |
| 5 | 3.87 | 99.94 | 2.00 | 51.50 | -0.463 | 0.313 | -0.239 | 0.580 | 0.198 | -0.506 |
| 6 | 0.06 | 100 | 0.03 | 51.53 | 0.361 | 0.008 | 0.195 | -0.394 | 0.159 | -0.807 |