Species Richness, Community Organization, and Spatiotemporal Distribution of Earthworms in the Pineapple Agroecosystems of Tripura, India

Table 6

Summary result of canonical correlation analysis relating soil properties and earthworm population characteristics.

(a) Measures of overall model fit for canonical correlation analysis

Canonical function	Canonical correlation	Eigen value		value
1	0.87	0.75	42.9	0.00
2	0.49	0.25	7.25	0.06

(b) Canonical weights, loadings, squared loadings, cross-loadings, squared cross-loadings, and redundancy index for the first canonical function

Variables	Canonical weight	Canonical loading	Squared canonical loading	Canonical cross-loading	Squared canonical cross-loading	Redundancy index
(A) Independent
() Temperature	1.98	0.96	0.93	−0.84	0.70	0.62
() Moisture	1.01	−0.87	0.76	0.76	0.57
() Organic matter	−0.27	−0.87	0.76	0.76	0.57
() Soil pH	−0.28	0.91	0.83	−0.79	0.63
(B) Dependent
() Worm density	0.85	0.83	0.69	−0.72	0.52	0.36
() Worm biomass	0.56	0.52	0.27	−0.45	0.21