Table 2.

Spearman rank correlation (ρ), corresponding P‐value, and significance (<0.05) in bold for association for all sites (n = 285) and finer spatial extent longitudinal groupings (Long 1–3, each n = 95) salinity, depth, species richness, total abundance, and site scores for primary and secondary CA axis extracted via reciprocal averaging

	Salinity		Depth		Species richness		Total abundance
	ρ	P‐value	ρ	P‐value	ρ	P‐value	ρ	P‐value
CA 1
All sites	0.191	0.001	0.164	0.006	0.238	0.000	0.299	0.000
Long 1	0.292	0.004	−0.330	0.001	0.487	0.000	0.458	0.000
Long 2	0.398	0.000	0.054	0.600	0.223	0.030	0.116	0.262
Long 3	0.166	0.107	0.446	0.000	−0.345	0.000	−0.067	0.519
CA 2
All sites	−0.243	0.000	0.280	0.000	−0.502	0.000	−0.325	0.000
Long 1	−0.097	0.350	0.619	0.000	−0.508	0.000	−0.085	0.415
Long 2	−0.252	0.014	0.149	0.149	−0.369	0.000	−0.246	0.017
Long 3	0.146	0.159	0.204	0.048	0.504	0.000	0.496	0.000