Table 4. Pearson correlation coefficients between different methods of morphological and metagenetic analyses.

		Correlation (species or MOTU numbers/biomass or sequence reads)
Taxon	Station	Morphology-MiSeq	Morphology-454	MiSeq-454
Order	Slope	0.992**/0.937*	0.986*/0.812	0.991**/0.954*
	Kuroshio	0.998**/0.993**	0.996**/0.990**	0.996**/0.999**
	Subtropical	0.987*/0.972**	0.965*/0.923*	0.993**/0.986**
Family	Slope	0.446/0.888**	0.501/0.912**	0.877**/0.993**
(Calanoida)	Kuroshio	0.906**/0.716**	0.889**/0.825**	0.953**/0.980**
	Subtropical	0.854**/0.796**	0.874**/0.920**	0.942**/0.922**

Both species/MOTU number (left) and biomass/sequence reads (right) were correlated at each station. Comparisons were performed at both the order-level and family-level of taxonomic groups, which are shown in Figs 3 and 4. Significant correlations are indicated by asterisks (*P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01).