Table 2. The environmental variables best correlated with the community and the metabolic function pattern.

	Water				Sediment
	Salinity (psu)	O2 (mg/l)	Chl-a	Temperature (°C)	POC (ug/g)	Sand (%)	Silt & Clay (%)	Phaeopigments (ug/g)	CPE (ug/g)	ρ
Community pattern	+									0.88
	+				+					0.85
	+	+			+					0.79
	+	+			+		+			0.72
	+	+			+		+		+	0.66
	+	+		+	+		+	+		0.64
	+	+		+	+	+	+	+		0.58
	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+		0.54
Metabolic function pattern		+								0.73
	+	+								0.63
		+		+			+			0.57
	+	+				+	+			0.54

Notes.

POC

Particulate Organic Carbon

CPE

Chloroplastic pigment equivalents

Chl-a

Chlorophyll-a concentration (ug/l) and Fluorescence

ρ

Spearman rank correlation coefficient