Pearson correlation examining the relationship in abundance for pairs of taxa: bryozoans (Bz), bivalves (Bv), gastropods (Gp) and decapods (Dp).

Relationships were assessed for both the logarithm (base 10) of the abundances variables (A) and the residuals of the abundances from the large scale spatial regression (B). The upper half of the matrix indicates the correlation coefficients for log10 (x+1) where x is larval abundance, lower half indicates the p-value. Statistically significant correlations are indicated in bold.