Table 4.

Relationships between cumulative and rooted vegetation cover and abundance of juvenile pike, perch and the warm-water and vegetation associated fish assemblage. Estimates show results for the fixed effects from generalized models (Poisson distribution) with inlets and inlet per year, as well as an observation level, random effects

Predictor variables	Response variables	Est.	SE	z-values	p-values	R2 marginal	R2 conditional
Cumulative vegetation cover	Pike	0.73	0.06	12.82	< 0.001	0.11	0.58
	Perch	0.17	0.09	1.95	0.051	0.12	0.46
	Juvenile assemblage	0.33	0.05	6.37	< 0.001	0.10	0.41
Rooted vegetation cover	Pike	0.33	0.05	6.19	< 0.001	0.07	0.55
	Perch	0.23	0.08	2.72	0.007	0.12	0.46
	Juvenile assemblage	0.37	0.05	7.47	< 0.001	0.10	0.40