Table 3.

Kendal's Tau-b correlations between microbial indicators.

	E.coli	Ent	Som col	F col	Total col	FRNA G1	FRNA G2	FRNA G3	FRNA G4	B.theta	M.smithii	HPyVs	PMMoV
Fecal indicator bacteria
E.coli	1	.670**	.573**	.432**	.591**	.213**	.474**	.228**		.451**	.172**	.213**	.419**
Ent	670**	1	.549**	.495**	.592**	.215**	.425**	.209**		.497**	.221**	.258**	.363**
Coliphages
Som col	.573**	.549**	1	.511**	.801**	.144**	.457**	.199**		.415**	.205**	.233**	.374**
F col	.432**	.495**	.511**	1	.554**	.165**	.422**	.226**		.340**	.183**	.234**	.264**
Total col	.591**	.592**	.801**	.554**	1	.169**	.502**	.220**		.428**	.219**	.270**	.382**
FRNA genotypes
FRNA G1	.213**	.215**	.144**	.165**	.169**	1	.202**	.178**		.144*		.262**	.147**
FRNA G2	.474**	.425**	.457**	.422**	.502**	.202**	1	.309**		.374**	.261**	.324**	.448**
FRNA G3	.228**	.209**	.199**	.226**	.220**	.178**	.309**	1	.313**	.268**	.296**	.139*	.235**
FRNA G4								.313**	1
Human specific markers
B.theta	.451**	.497**	.415**	.340**	.428**	.144*	.374**	.268**		1	.333**	.351**	.296**
M.smithii	.172**	.221**	.205**	.183**	.219**		.261**	.296**		.333**	1	.355**	.174**
HPyVs	.213**	.258**	.233**	.234**	.270**	.262**	.324**	.139*		.351**	.355**	1	.131*
Plant virus
PMMoV	.419**	.363**	.374**	.264**	.382**	.147**	.448**	.235**		.296**	.174**	.131*	1

Abbreviation:Ent – Enterococcus; Som col – Somatic coliphage; F col – F+ coliphage; Total col – Total coliphage.

**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).