Research Article

Avian Community Structure as a Function of Season, Habitat Type, and Disturbance, in Mole National Park, Northern Region (Ghana)

Table 3

Summary of canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) of birds showing the levels of correlation between axes and environmental gradients, variance of species, and species-environmental relationships in the dry season.

Axis IAxis II

Canonical Eigenvalue0.9120.418
Cumulative % variance81.220.6
% variance explained81.8211.3
Pearson corr. coefficient species/env. score0.9760.990
Kendall rank corr. of species/env. score0.6660.666
Correlations
Patchiness0.101-0.003
Erosion0.638-0.215
Animal trampling0.4740.128
Bushfire-0.8360.140