Research Article
Spatial Distribution of Elephants versus Human and Ecological Variables in Western Ghana
Table 1
Regression coefficients (
) between dung per km and a suite of human or ecological variables recorded on transects in the wet season.
| | Description of variable | | |
| | Length of secondary forest (km) | 0.878 | <0.01 | | Number of water sources per km | 0.837 | <0.01 | | Distance to nearest road (km) | 0.815 | <0.01 | | Distance to the nearest human settlement (km) | 0.783 | <0.01 | | Number of poaching activities per km | −0.698 | <0.05 |
| | Number of fruiting trees per km | 0.304 | >0.05 NS | | Number of logging activities | 0.226 | >0.05 NS |
| | Distance to reserve boundary line (km) | −0.218 | >0.05 NS | | Distance to the international boundary (km) | −0.144 | >0.05 NS | | Distance to the nearest WD/FSD guard post (km) | 0.127 | >0.05 NS |
| | Altitude (m) | −0.093 | >0.05 NS |
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