Figure 6
Multivariate statistic results. (A) Scatter plot of the first two axes of the CCA analysis. Species and trophic categories (i.e. scavengers, predators, and detritivores) are represented by black points and environmental variables are represented by red arrows (i.e., vectors). The environmental variables considered were date of the observation, spatial components of current velocity (“EW_Comp_V”, “Vert_Comp_V”), depth, temperature, and the time (numerically transformed and shifted so to start from 4:30 as “dawn”). (B) Bar chart of the score loadings relative to the first latent vector (explained variance = 77.44%) for both environmental and species blocks (no. 1 and 2, respectively).
