A Survey of Ant Species in Three Habitats at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Table 8

Spearman rank-order correlations between ant community and plant community characteristics.

Correlations	Spearman rank correlation coefficient	𝑃
Ant abundance and percent ground cover by plants	0.787	<0.001
Ant abundance and plant richness	0.784	<0.001
Ant richness and percent ground cover by plants	0.550	0.005
Ant richness and plant richness	0.508	0.011
Ant biodiversity and percent ground cover by plants	0.491	0.015
Ant biodiversity and plant richness	0.365	0.079