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

Table 5

Result of canonical correlation analysis of relationships between soil and vegetation^a.

Variables	Canonical variates
	1	2
Soil properties
Exchangeable sodium	0.58	0.38
Organic matter	0.71	0.15
CEC	0.04	0.20
Exchangeable calcium	0.04	0.16
Sand content	−0.30	0.64
	Redundancy coefficient	0.19	0.12
Vegetation characteristics
Tree size	0.82	0.57
Tree density	−0.99	−0.15
	Redundancy coefficient	0.83	0.16
Canonical correlation coefficient	0.99	0.97
Squared canonical correlation	0.98	0.94
X^2	39.17^∗	28.28^∗
Degree of freedom (df)	10	4
𝑃 values	<0.05	<0.05

^aVariables underlined with canonical loadings ≥ ±0.70 are considered significant.
^∗Significant at 5% significance level.