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Table 2 Kendall and Spearman correlation results between forest disturbance and selected carbon and water variables

From: Dramatic increase in water use efficiency with cumulative forest disturbance at the large forested watershed scale

Type of variable Variable 1971–1999 2000–2016
Kendall Spearman Kendall Spearman
Cor P Cor P Cor P Cor P
Carbon AGBIO 0.99 < 0.001 1.00 < 0.001 − 0.54 0.002 − 0.78 0.000
  TEC 1.00 < 0.001 1.00 < 0.001 − 0.03 0.903 − 0.30 0.235
  DOM 0.77 < 0.001 0.88 < 0.001 0.62 <0.001 0.81 <0.001
  NPP 0.81 < 0.001 0.90 < 0.001 − 0.22 0.236 − 0.42 0.098
  NBP − 0.52 < 0.001 − 0.75 < 0.001 − 0.07 0.715 − 0.10 0.708
Water ET 0.15 0.271 0.22 0.244 − 0.46 0.010 − 0.62 0.010
  Q 0.27 0.044 0.39 0.037 0.37 0.042 0.53 0.032
  Runoff ratio 0.12 0.381 0.17 0.382 0.41 0.022 0.58 0.016
Carbon and water relationship WUE 0.27 0.044 0.35 0.061 0.43 0.017 0.57 0.018
  1. Where Cor  correlation coefficient, P is the level of significance, bolded italics indicate significant trends at a significance level of 0.05, CECA  cumulative clear-cut area, AGBIO  above ground biomass, DOM  dead organic matter, TEC  total ecosystem carbon, NPP  net primary production, NBP  net biome production, Tmean  annual average daily temperature, Tmin  annual minimum daily temperature, Tmax  annual maximum daily temperature, P  precipitation, PET  potential evapotranspiration, ET  evapotranspiration, Q mean annual streamflow, WUE water use efficiency
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