Analysis of Soil-Vegetation Interrelationships in a South-Southern Secondary Forest of Nigeria

Table 1

Ordinary component matrix of vegetation parameters^a.

	Principal components
Vegetation parameters	1	2
Tree size	.884	.417
Above-ground biomass	.848	.455
Vegetation cover	.813	.000
Tree height	.645	.611
Tree density	−.656	.712
Species diversity	−.662	.678
Species composition	−.376	.619
Eigenvalues	3.59	2.10
% Variance	51.28	30.05
Cumulative explanation	51.28	81.33

^aVariables underlined with eigenvectors (coefficients) ≥ ±0.70 are considered significant.