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Table 1 Results from Spearman rank correlation analysis testing for superposition. Shown are significant spearman rank correlation coefficients (rho) at a significance level P ≤ 0.05. Abbreviations: na, not applicable; --, not significant. Note that signs of correlations are considered not relevant for assessing superposition

From: Parallels of quantum superposition in ecological models: from counterintuitive patterns to eco-evolutionary interpretations of cryptic species

 

RDA 1

RDA 2

RDA 3

RDA 4

Birds

    

Leuconotopicus borealis

-0.346

-0.346

na

na

Protonotaria citrea

0.323

-0.337

na

na

Sayornis phoebe

0.478

0.291

na

na

Setophaga dominica

0.367

0.387

na

na

Troglodytes aedon

-0.403

0.379

na

na

Phytoplankton

    

Chroococcales (undefined)

0.492

0.435

--

--

Dinobryon sp.

0.385

0.521

--

--

Dinobryon bavaricum var. vanhoeffenii

0.469

0.632

--

--

Monoraphidium minutum

0.445

0.484

--

--

Cryptomonas marssonii

0.542

--

0.494

--

Staurodesmus triangularis var. limneticus

0.455

--

0.428

--

Chrysochromulina sp.

0.453

--

--

-0.502

Undefined flagellates

-0.381

--

--

0.381

Gymnodinium uberrimum

0.499

--

--

-0.439

Monoraphidium dybowskii

0.415

--

--

0.495

Parvodinium inconspicuum

0.428

--

--

0.514

Snowella atomus

0.412

--

--

0.435

Staurastrum longipes

-0.499

--

--

0.439

Ceratium hirundinella

--

0.412

--

0.629

Tabellaria flocculosa var. flocculosa

--

0.402

--

0.632

Urosolenia longiseta

--

0.412

--

0.629

Chroococcus minutus

--

0.689

--

0.392

Rhabdogloea smithii

--

--

-0.383

-0.424

Quadrigula closterioides

-0.402

-0.388

--

-0.468

Pseudokephyrion sp.

0.402

0.388

--

0.468

Synura sp.

0.391

0.445

--

0.401

Invertebrates

    

Cyrnus insolutus

0.205

0.239

na

na

Paratanytarsus sp.

-0.356

-0.298

na

na

Sialis lutaria

0.217

0.194

na

na