Table 1 Mean values of species richness, functional richness and redundancy of fish communities across lakes, rivers and estuaries in the two main biogeographical regions covered by the study area, i.e. Danubian region and Iberian region.

From: Functional redundancy and sensitivity of fish assemblages in European rivers, lakes and estuarine ecosystems

 

Lakes

Rivers

Estuaries

Danubian

Iberian

P-value

Danubian

Iberian

P-value

Danubian

Iberian

P-value

Species richness

9.76

4.47

<0.001

12.24

4.29

<0.001

36.61

13.43

<0.001

Functional richness

3.16

1.88

<0.001

3.88

1.72

<0.001

7.41

3.22

<0.001

Redundancy

0.64

0.60

<0.001

0.63

0.60

<0.001

0.65

0.65

0.592

  1. P-values indicate the significance of changes between regions for each aquatic system using Kruskal–Wallis non-parametric tests. Values in bold indicate P-value < 0.05.
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