Figure 6 in Invertebrate communities, sediment parameters and food availability of intertidal soft-sediment ecosystems on the north coast of British Columbia, Canada

Figure 6. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) plots of (a) sediment parameters (depth to the aRPD, water content, particle size, penetrability, % macrophyte coverage, % Zostera marina cover, and % wood cover) by site and round and (b) the food availability (chlorophyll a and organic matter content) at three intertidal sandy shore sites on the north coast of British Columbia, Canada during the summer of 2017. Vector overlays for sediment and food variables show the correlation between variables and nMDS axes, with each vector showing the direction of increased value. BO: Boulder Beach. GU: Coast Guard Beach. PI: Prescott Inlet. Round A: 23 May 23–1 June. Round B: 21–26 June. Round C: 19–25 July. Round D: 18–24 August.