Ecological Archives A023-020-A3

Gustavo Hallwass, Priscila F. Lopes, Anastácio A. Juras, Renato A. M. Silvano. 2013. Fishers' knowledge identifies environmental changes and fish abundance trends in impounded tropical rivers. Ecological Applications 23:392–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-0429.1

Appendix C. Correlations between the fish landed (biomass) and mentioned in interviews for each village.

TABLE C1. Spearman (rs) correlations between fish mentioned in interviews (n = 300 fishers) and the biomass of fish landed (n = 601 fish landings) for each studied village in the Lower Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon.

 

Biomass of fish landed

Village

rs

P

n

Açaizal

0.71

<0.01

30

Calados

0.74

<0.01

33

Ituquara

0.60

<0.01

42

Joana Peres

0.62

<0.01

34

Umarizal

0.52

<0.01

38

†Number of fishes included in the correlation analysis.


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