Abundance, recruitment, and shell growth of the exotic mussel Limnoperna fortunei in the Río de la Plata (Argentina)

Zoological Studies

Table 1 Best results from the BIOENV analysis based on Spearman's rank correlations ( r _s )

Biological matrix	Bagliardi beach		Punta Indio
	r _s	Subset of variables	r _s	Subset of variables
Total individuals	0.385	T	0.684*	T, TDS
	0.291	T, Cond	0.681*	T, TDS,%O
	0.255	T, Cond, DO	0.669*	pH, T, TDS,%O, DO
Individuals of greater than 1 mm	0.095	pH, T, Cond, TDS	0.138	pH TDS
	0.093	Cond	0.131	pH, Cond
	0.092	pH, Cond, TDS	0.123	TDS
Individuals of less than 1 mm (recruits)	0.420	T	0.616*	T, TDS,%O
Individuals of less than 1 mm (recruits)	0.333	T, Cond	0.615*	T, TDS
	0.279	T, Cond, DO	0.599*	T,TDS, DO

Biological and physicochemical variables: pH power of Hydrogen, T temperature, Cond conductivity, TDS total dissolved solids, %O oxygen saturation, and DO dissolved oxygen; *Significant at p ≤ 0.05.