Table 5.
Coefficients of determination (R2) for the linear relationship between phytoplankton arsenic and two metrics for lake water column arsenic concentrations; between zooplankton arsenic and two metrics for lake water column arsenic concentrations; and between zooplankton arsenic and phytoplankton arsenic on all summer sampling dates (n=47).
| max [As] (µg L−1) |
oxic [As] (µg L−1) |
phytoplankton [As] (µg g−1) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| phytoplankton [As] (µg g−1) | R2 = 0.11* | R2 = 0.50** | --- |
| zooplankton [As] (µg g−1) | R2 = 0.06 | R2 = 0.29** | R2 = 0.43** |
a
excludes outlier described in Table 3
**
correlation is significant (p<0.01)
*
correlation is significant (p<0.05)