Geographical Gradients in Argentinean Terrestrial Mammal Species Richness and Their Environmental Correlates

Table 3

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between the species richness of each group of mammals and the geographical, spatial, and environmental variables used for analysing the geographical gradients in species richness.

	Variables	SRa	SRm	SRp	SRx	SRc	SRu	SRr
Geographical	La	−0.647 **	−0.566 **	−0.638 **	−0.733 **	−0.670 **	−0.721 **	−0.437 *
	Lo	−0.159	−0.480 *	−0.099	−0.539 **	−0.187	−0.297	0.143
	NNE-SSW axis	−0.474 *	−0.614 **	−0.433 *	−0.748 **	−0.504 *	−0.599 **	−0.172
Spatial	SF1	0.578 **	0.389	0.590 **	0.660 **	0.672 **	0.793 **	0.358
	SF3	0.394	0.162	0.420 *	−0.010	0.333	0.178	0.514 *
	SF4	−0.340	−0.391	−0.320	−0.556 **	−0.334	−0.305	−0.170
Environmental	MT	0.32	0.331	0.307	0.637 **	0.328	0.474 *	0.104
	HT	0.17	0.215	0.156	0.423 *	0.075	0.201	0.073
	CT	0.368	0.491 *	0.334	0.707 **	0.396	0.572 **	0.07
	TR	−0.131	−0.192	−0.116	−0.152	−0.269	−0.287	0.032
	MP	0.136	0.476 *	0.073	0.23	0.185	0.168	−0.081
	PR	0.464 *	0.311	0.474 *	0.148	0.494*	0.288	0.489 *
	MA	0.427 *	0.141	0.461 *	−0.144	0.364	0.238	0.625 **
	AR	0.407	0.138	0.438 *	−0.156	0.339	0.213	0.604 **
	LR	−0.204	−0.291	−0.182	−0.039	−0.331	−0.212	−0.099
	SA	−0.119	−0.172	−0.105	−0.168	−0.252	−0.256	0.044

Statistically significant correlations are in bold (*𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01). Variable codes as in Table 1 and Figure 2.