Table 3.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between environmental variables and the abundance of common mesozooplankton groups in the eastern Barents Sea in May 2016. Bold font indicates significant coefficients after Holm–Bonferroni correction (p < 0.05): Lat—latitude; Long—longitude; Depth—depth of sampling, m; Temp—mean temperature in sampling layer, °C; Sal—mean salinity in sampling layer; Chla—surface chlorophyll a concentration in sampling layer, mg m⁻³.

Group	Lat	Long	Depth	Temp	Sal	Chla
Copepoda	0.71	0.80	0.68	−0.60	0.65	−0.67
Medusae	0.56	0.49	−0.01	−0.77	0.21	−0.66
Meroplankon	0.37	0.15	−0.21	−0.49	−0.02	−0.51
Euphausiids	−0.79	−0.54	−0.01	0.13	–0.66	0.14
Hyperiids	0.56	0.77	0.62	−0.22	0.63	−0.26
Appendicularia	0.68	0.58	0.14	−0.59	0.43	−0.57
Total	0.56	0.62	0.54	−0.83	0.35	−0.86