Ecological Archives E096-216-A3

Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas, David Sánchez-Fernández, Josefa Velasco, Andrés Millán, and Núria Bonada. 2015. Similarity in difference: changes in community functional features along natural and anthropogenic stress gradients. Ecology 96:2458–2466. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1447.1

Appendix C (Table C1). Mean absolute Pearson correlation coefficients between trait categories and the stress intensity for each trait.

Biological trait

log-Conductivity

arcsin-sqrt-Land-use intensity

Maximal potential size

0.39

0.24

Life cycle duration

0.72

0.01

Reproductive cycles

0.75

0.44

Aquatic stages

0.79

0.20

Reproduction

0.40

0.14

Dispersal

0.63

0.09

Resistance forms

0.37

0.16

Respiration

0.72

0.20

Locomotion and substrate relation

0.54

0.22

Food

0.29

0.14

Feeding habits

0.35

0.18

Body form

0.61

0.38

Sclerotisation degree

0.46

0.38


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