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

Table 4

The Spearman rank correlations were carried out between the four PCA factors extracted, slope, elevation, longitude, and latitude variables.

Fragment variable	Slope	Elevation	Longitude	Latitude	PCA 1	PCA 2	PCA 3	PCA 4
Slope
Correlation coeff.	1	−0.24	0.15	−0.47	−0.03	−0.04	0.02	−0.10
P value	.	0.02	0.14	0.00	0.74	0.71	0.84	0.31
Elevation
Correlation coeff.		1	0.01	0.52	−0.21	0.07	−0.06	−0.07
P value		.	0.89	0.00	0.04	0.50	0.57	0.52
Longitude
Correlation coeff.			1	0.10	−0.11	−0.05	−0.35	0.06
P value			.	0.32	0.29	0.60	0.00	0.56
Latitude
Correlation coeff.				1	−0.02	0.01	−0.05	−0.07
P value				.	0.88	0.91	0.64	0.48
PCA factor 1 (area)
Correlation coeff.					1	0.07	0.05	0.32
P value					.	0.47	0.62	0.00
PCA factor 2 (shape)
Correlation coeff.						1	−0.03	0.05
P value						.	0.74	0.63
PCA factor 3 (proximity)
Correlation coeff.							1	−0.05
P value							.	0.60
PCA factor 4 (contiguity)
Correlation coeff.								1
P value								.

Significant values are highlighted.