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Published in final edited form as: Mol Ecol. 2016 May 14;25(10):2286–2301. doi: 10.1111/mec.13633

Table 3. Environmental variables fitted into nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis. P-values <0.05 are considered as significant effect.

	NMDS1	NMDS2	R ²	Pr (>r)
Altitude	0.9399	0.3412	0.76	0.0002
Water temperature	0.3384	−0.9410	0.28	0.0748
pH	0.7812	0.6243	0.43	0.0134
Conductivity	0.2489	0.9685	0.57	0.0020
SO₄²⁻	0.2401	0.9708	0.51	0.0038
Cl⁻	0.2885	0.9575	0.58	0.0019
Na⁺	0.2795	0.9602	0.53	0.0025
K⁺	0.2852	0.9585	0.48	0.0037
Mg²⁺	0.2647	0.9643	0.56	0.0019
Ca²⁺	0.1122	0.9937	0.71	0.0002
DOC	0.7299	0.6836	0.73	0.0003
DN	0.3844	0.9232	0.49	0.0041