Research Article

Patterns of Odonata Assemblages in Lotic and Lentic Systems in the Ankasa Conservation Area, Ghana

Table 2

Results of the broken stick model for the abundance rank distribution of Odonata species, calculated for each of the three water types.

SampleIntercept ±S.E.Slope ±S.E.RProb.

Streams4.05 ± 1.750.55 ± 0.190.370.009
Rivers2.96 ± 1.19 0.26 ± 0.090.380.008
Ponds25.27 ± 5.41-1.02 ± 0.43-0.330.02
Slope of SAD: = 6.22, p (regr): 0.002
(ANCOVA interactions x species rank)
Monte-Carlo Permutation (n = 99999): p<0.0014
Levene test for homogeneity of variance: p<0.0015