Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Table 5. Loadings (correlations) of the original variables (species) on principal component axes 1 (PC1) and 2 (PC2) for 27 streams in the Red River basin.
| Species | PC1 | PC2 | Species | PC1 | PC2 |
| chestnut lamprey | 0.156 | -0.022 | flathead chub | 0.016 | 0.056 |
| silver lamprey | 0.104 | -0.027 | blacknose dace | 0.092 | -0.148 |
| bowfin | 0.040 | 0.004 | longnose dace | 0.182 | -0.005 |
| goldeye | 0.091 | 0.165 | creek chub | 0.064 | -0.061 |
| mooneye | 0.139 | 0.102 | black bullhead | -0.015 | 0.031 |
| quillback carpsucker | 0.127 | 0.173 | yellow bullhead | 0.118 | 0.001 |
| white sucker | 0.000 | 0.000 | brown bullhead | 0.103 | -0.094 |
| northern hogsucker | 0.040 | 0.004 | channel catfish | 0.102 | 0.285 |
| bigmouth buffalo | 0.053 | 0.236 | stonecat | 0.068 | -0.022 |
| silver redhorse | 0.218 | 0.015 | tadpole madtom | 0.171 | 0.032 |
| golden redhorse | 0.194 | -0.071 | central mudminnow | 0.096 | -0.322 |
| shorthead redhorse | 0.176 | 0.017 | northern pike | -0.018 | 0.042 |
| greater redhorse | 0.074 | 0.136 | banded killifish | 0.124 | -0.071 |
| central stoneroller | 0.035 | 0.039 | burbot | 0.154 | -0.010 |
| largescale stoneroller | -0.005 | 0.035 | trout-perch | 0.083 | 0.169 |
| spotfin shiner | 0.026 | 0.246 | white bass | 0.082 | 0.133 |
| common carp | 0.008 | 0.077 | rock bass | 0.128 | 0.046 |
| brassy minnow | 0.045 | -0.077 | green sunfish | 0.123 | 0.073 |
| common shiner | 0.062 | -0.025 | pumpkinseed | 0.144 | -0.078 |
| silver chub | 0.059 | 0.090 | orangespotted sunfish | 0.066 | 0.077 |
| pearl dace | 0.019 | -0.256 | bluegill | 0.205 | -0.012 |
| hornyhead chub | 0.183 | -0.030 | smallmouth bass | 0.116 | -0.045 |
| golden shiner | 0.200 | -0.082 | largemouth bass | 0.185 | -0.101 |
| pugnose shiner | 0.059 | -0.038 | white crappie | 0.001 | 0.127 |
| emerald shiner | 0.132 | 0.146 | black crappie | 0.117 | 0.071 |
| river shiner | -0.036 | 0.259 | rainbow darter | 0.040 | 0.004 |
| bigmouth shiner | 0.156 | 0.103 | Iowa darter | 0.084 | 0.046 |
| blackchin shiner | 0.216 | -0.114 | least darter | 0.059 | -0.038 |
| blacknose shiner | 0.184 | -0.097 | johnny darter | 0.069 | -0.035 |
| spottail shiner | 0.216 | -0.027 | yellow perch | 0.143 | 0.057 |
| rosyface shiner | 0.136 | -0.045 | logperch | 0.132 | -0.011 |
| sand shiner | 0.120 | 0.120 | blackside darter | 0.034 | 0.043 |
| weed shiner | 0.091 | -0.054 | river darter | 0.060 | -0.121 |
| mimic shiner | 0.154 | -0.172 | sauger | 0.056 | 0.204 |
| northern redbelly dace | 0.083 | -0.193 | walleye | 0.165 | 0.124 |
| finescale dace | 0.009 | -0.210 | freshwater drum | 0.081 | 0.140 |
| bluntnose minnow | 0.138 | 0.039 | mottled sculpin | 0.100 | -0.057 |
| fathead minnow | 0.000 | 0.000 | brook stickleback | -0.016 | -0.056 |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/fish/norbasin/table5.htm
Page Contact Information: Webmaster
Page Last Modified: Saturday, 02-Feb-2013 04:37:39 EST
Menlo Park, CA [caww54]
