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APPENDICES

Table A1. Local-scale environmental variables (57) used in this study.

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Table A1 Continued. Local-scale environmental variables (57) used in this study.

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Table A2. Landscape-scale environmental variables used in this study

Table A3. Metrics used to calculate the habitat quality index (HQI) for stream sites.

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Table A4. Metrics used to calculate the index of biotic integrity (IBI) for fish communities.

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Table A5. Correlation coefficents and p values for best fit environmental vectors describing relationships between landscape variables and fish community structure in the Cross Timbers ecoregion. Values are based on rotational vector fitting between environmental variables and NMS scores for each site.

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Table A6. Correlation coefficents and p values for best fit environmental vectors describing relationships between in-stream habitat variables and community structure in the ecoregion 29. Values are based on rotational vector fitting between variables and NMS scores for each site.

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Table A6 continued. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in stream habitat variables in the Cross Timbers ecoregion.

Table A7. . Correlation coefficents and p values for best fit environmental vectors describing relationships between HQI metrics and fish community structure in the Cross Timbers ecoregion. Values are based on rotational vector fitting between environmental variables and NMS scores for each site.

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TableA8. Correlation coefficents and p values for best fit environmental vectors describing relationships between fish IBI metrics and community structure in the Cross Timbers ecoregion. Values are based on rotational vector fitting between environmental variables and NMS scores for each site.

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Table A9. Correlation coefficents and p-values for relationships between fish community structure and landscape variables in the Blackland prairie ecoregion.

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Table A10. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in stream habitat variables in the Blackland prairie ecoregion.

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Table A10 continued. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in stream habitat variables in the Blackland prairie ecoregion.

Table A11. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in habitat metric scores in the Blackland prairie ecoregion.

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Table A12. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in index of biotic integrity metric scores in the Blackland prairie ecoregion.

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Table A13. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and landscape variables in the East Central Texas plains ecoregion.

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Table A14. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in stream habitat variables in the East Central Texas plains ecoregion.

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Table A14 continued. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in stream habitat variables in the East central Texas plains ecoregion.

Table A15. coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in habitat metric scores in the East central Texas plains ecoregion.

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Table A16. Correlation coefficents and p values for relationships between fish community structure and in index of biotic integrity metric scores in the East central Texas ecoregion.

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Table A17. Correlation coefficients and p values for relationships between fish community structure landscape variables, habitat variables, and HQI scores for all three years by ecoregion.

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