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Björn Wissel, Arian Gaçe, and Brian Fry. 2005. Tracing river influences on phytoplankton dynamics in two Louisiana estuaries. Ecology 86:2751–2762.

Appendix F. Results of Principal Component Analysis using average values of POC and PON concentrations, PO13C and PO15N values, and molar C:N ratio for all water quality stations combined. The most influential eigenvectors for PC 1 and PC 2 are highlighted in bold. Total variance explained by the model was 81% (50 and 31% for PC 1 and PC 2, respectively). PC 3 had an eigenvalue of 0.62 and was not retained for the analysis.

Eigenvalue (% explained)  
PCA1
2.48 (50%)
PCA 2
1.57 (31%)
Variable
eigenvector
eigenvector
 
 
 
[POC]
0.56
0.13
[PON]
0.57
0.31
Molar C:N ratio
-0.19
-0.64
PO13C
-0.32
0.55
PO15N
-0.46
0.43



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