Research Article

Leaf Spectra and Weight of Species in Canopy, Subcanopy, and Understory Layers in a Venezuelan Andean Cloud Forest

Table 7

PCA: Proportion of accumulated variance of the first three principal components. CANCOR: correlations between canonical axes. LDA: Singular value decomposition (SVD) terms and ratios.

PCAComp. 1Comp. 2Comp. 3

0.6460.8810.952
Accumulated variance 0.5360.7700.889
0.7400.8770.966

CANCORCan. 1Can. 2Can. 3

1.0000.9960.973
Correlation coefficient 0.9950.9870.968
0.9990.9490.890

LDALD1LD2LD1/LD2

31.1888.9983.466
SVD square 22.9612.8797.975
15.88014.3971.103