Research Article

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

Table 4

Intercorrelations (Pearson) between the environmental variables (soil erosion, animal trampling, tree felling, bushfire, and patchiness) in bird dataset, during the dry season. A correlation above/below ±0.61 is significant at p = 0.0013 ; ±0.45 at p = 0.01 and ±0.33 at p = 0.05.

PatchinessErosionAnimal tramplingBushfire

Patchiness 1-0.588 0.891-0.523
Erosion-0.588 1-0.296-0.370
Animal trampling 0.891-0.296 1-0.756
Bushfire-0.523-0.370-0.756 1