Latitudinal Variation into the Macrofaunal Assemblages Associated to Zostera noltei Seagrass along the Atlantic Coast of Morocco

Table 8

Results of the sequential test of the multivariate regression analysis (DistLM). Environmental variables were analyzed individually (marginal test) and sequentially using a forward selection procedure (adjusted R² = an information criterion).

Variable	Pseudo-F	value	Proportion	Cumulativeproportion
Belowground biomass	3.8336	0.0004	0.3239	0.3237
Salinity	2.6418	0.0083	0.1852	0.5092
Percentage of mud	2.068	0.0474	0.1258	0.6350
Aboveground biomass	1.2697	0.2882	0.0739	0.7089
Temperature	1.3613	0.2605	0.0739	0.7828