Apendix Table 10. The results of RELATE and BEST analyses to identify relationships between the sediment and infauna from the EAOW cable route data; and subsequently, to find the combination of sediment parameters that correlated most highly with the patterns observed in the infaunal communities.
RELATE Parameters
Rank correlation method: Spearman
Sample statistic (Rho): 0.476 Significance level of sample statistic: 0.1 % Number of permutations: 999 Number of permuted statistics greater than or equal to Rho: 0