Research Article

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

Table 3

Canonical coefficients and the correlations with the first three axes of the environmental variables of the canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) for the three water types. Interset correlations were significant (p <0.05) for the three axes.

CorrelationAxis IAxis IIAxis III

Turbidity0.5730.098-0.156
Flow rate0.5490.0810.114
Width-0.706-0.0760.164
Depth-0.260-0.0090.114
Conductivity-0.4210.054-0.092
Do0.2030.0790.145
Temperature-0.748-0.0600.070
pH0.154-0.1370.091

Canonical Eigen value0.6510.4450.185
% variance explained22.315.296.338
Cumulative % variance22.337.643.96
Pearson correlation species/environment scores0.9790.7080.781
Kendal rank correlation of species/environment scores0.6840.4630.597