Dynamic factor analyses of the 12 zooplankton taxonomic groups (A), and of the 10 physical variables (B).

Each combination of variance-covariance matrix configurations, and number of latent (underlying) trends, was ranked according to their best fit statistics (log-likelihood and Akaike Information Criterion with the correction for small sample sizes (AICc)). Only the top 10 of 44 trials are shown for (A), and the top 10 of 36 trials for (B). The top-ranked model is in the first row in each table.