Table 4.

Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation of selected parameters analyzed in sediment samples [n = 65, statistically significant coefficients (p < 0.05) are in bold].

	Cd	Cr	Cu	Grain size	Hg	16S rRNA	aadA	CTX-M	E. coli	ENT	Psd	SHV	TEM	OM	Pb	Zn
Cd		0.90	0.95	−0.24	0.64	0.59	0.66	0.54	−0.10	0.47	0.64	0.60	0.25	0.76	0.63	0.99
Cr			0.89	−0.52	0.66	0.61	0.59	0.44	−0.05	0.51	0.67	0.67	0.35	0.83	0.43	0.89
Cu				−0.29	0.78	0.67	0.71	0.57	−0.11	0.54	0.78	0.72	0.25	0.87	0.49	0.95
Grain size					−0.26	−0.33	−0.01	0.03	−0.05	−0.20	−0.29	−0.32	−0.33	−0.41	0.23	−0.26
Hg						0.51	0.52	0.37	−0.05	0.46	0.70	0.63	0.08	0.89	0.25	0.63
16S							0.72	0.67	−0.19	0.83	0.80	0.63	0.51	0.72	0.24	0.57
aadA								0.58	−0.36	0.74	0.73	0.66	0.18	0.63	0.43	0.65
CTX-M									−0.11	0.57	0.62	0.56	0.24	0.59	0.52	0.51
E. coli										−0.34	−0.17	−0.13	−0.04	−0.04	−0.12	−0.11
ENT											0.73	0.59	0.47	0.59	0.27	0.45
Psd												0.82	0.26	0.86	0.21	0.61
SHV													0.15	0.79	0.19	0.57
TEM														0.23	0.12	0.25
OM															0.32	0.74
Pb																0.63
Zn