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2. Pearson product moment correlations for Northwest Atlantic hydrographic
conditions and blood constituent levels in trawl-collected adult yellowtail
flounder during 1978-85. (Sample
sizes ranged from 268 to 830. R-values >0.4, shown in bold, were
considered significant.)
Temperature |
Temper-ature |
Salinity |
Dissolved
Oxygen |
Osmo-lality |
Sodium |
Potas-sium |
Calcium |
Hema-tocrit |
Hemo-globin |
MCHC |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Salinity |
0.11 |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dissolved
Oxygen |
-0.15 |
0.22 |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Osmolality |
-0.01 |
-0.12 |
-0.65 |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sodium |
0.11 |
-0.38 |
-0.57 |
0.56 |
- |
|
|
|
|
|
Potassium |
0.38 |
-0.08 |
-0.02 |
0.14 |
0.16 |
- |
|
|
|
|
Calcium |
0.15 |
0.00 |
-0.03 |
0.33 |
0.27 |
0.01 |
- |
|
|
|
Hematocrit |
-0.01 |
0.01 |
0.08 |
0.08 |
0.00 |
0.04 |
0.11 |
- |
|
|
Hemoglobin |
-0.23 |
0.33 |
0.57 |
-0.12 |
-0.22 |
-0.03 |
0.06 |
0.74 |
- |
|
MCHC |
-0.14 |
0.52 |
0.98 |
-0.36 |
-0.44 |
-0.03 |
-0.08 |
-0.23 |
0.53 |
- |
|