Research Article

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

Table 5

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 (wet season).

Axis 1Axis 2

Canonical Eigenvalue0.2730.016
Cumulative % variance58.5662.02
% variance explained (62.02%)58.563.46
Pearson corr. coefficient species/env. score0.8540.880
Kendall rank corr. of species/env. score0.3330.666
Correlations
Patchiness0.6690.235
Erosion0.4900.705
Animal trampling0.3750.789