Are Plant Species’ Richness and Diversity Influenced by Fragmentation at a Microscale?

Table 3

Loadings for the four components extracted from the PCA analysis and the % of variation explained by each one.

Axes extracted	PCA 1 (50.96%)	PCA 2 (16.74%)	PCA 3 (11.65%)	PCA 4 (7.66%)
Variable
Area (m^2)	0.98	0.09	−0.03	0.06
CONTIG	0.34	−0.22	0.29	0.68
Core area (m^2)	0.97	−0.03	−0.09	−0.15
Core FD	−0.49	0.48	0.11	−0.48
Core PAR	−0.94	0.28	0.13	0.04
Core perimeter	0.94	0.12	−0.06	−0.22
Core SI	0.60	0.74	0.09	−0.06
ECON	−0.02	−0.24	0.59	−0.10
ENN	−0.45	0.17	−0.57	0.42
FD	−0.57	0.71	0.30	0.20
PAR	−0.96	0.21	0.14	0.01
Perimeter (m)	0.94	0.28	0.04	0.11
PROX	0.13	−0.34	0.80	0.01
SI	0.56	0.74	0.23	0.21