Table 1. Regression analyses (r, p) among the abundance of floating biomass and micro-propagules, and the environmental factors.

	Micro- propagule	Micro- propagule (SCAR+)	SST	Salinity	DO	Chl a	DIN	PO4-P	Distance
Floating biomass	0.036, 0.858		0.067, 0.738	0.155, 0.440	0.500, 0.008**	−0.328, 0.095	−0.271, 0.171	−0.011, 0.956	0.364, 0.062
Floating biomass (SCAR+)		0.086, 0.669	0.055, 0.787	0.165, 0.411	0.469, 0.014*	−0.349, 0.074	−0.284, 0.152	−0.28, 0.890	0.372, 0.056
Micro-propagule			0.311, 0.114	−0.152, 0.449	−0.244, 0.219	0.078, 0.697	0.221, 0.267	0.008, 0.968	−0.656, 0.000**
Micro-propagule (SCAR+)			0.068, 0.735	0.233, 0.243	0.011, 0.955	0.068, 0.738	−0.186, 0.352	−0.051, 0.802	−0.401, 0.038*
SST				−0.775, 0.000**	−0.105, 0.601	−0.355, 0.069	0.790, 0.000**	0.495, 0.009**	−0.194, 0.331
Salinity					0.237, 0.233	0.368, 0.059	−0.911, 0.000**	−0.604, 0.001**	0.240, 0.228
DO						−0.082, 0.686	−0.275, 0.166	−0.053, 0.794	0.236, 0.235
Chl a							−0.225, 0.259	−0.267, 0.178	−0.336, 0.086
DIN								0.567, 0.002**	−0.220, 0.270
PO4-P									0.101, 0.615

Notes.

Bold fonts indicate significant values of Pearson correlation.

^*p < 0.05.

^**p < 0.01.