Ecological Archives M072-001-A3

Peter B. Pearman. 2002. The scale of community structure: habitat variation and avian guilds in tropical forest understory. Ecological Monographs 72:19-39.

Appendix C. Principal Component Analysis, eigenvalues, cumulative proportions and eigenvectors associated with variability in primary forest cover within 12 tori around each study site. 

Component Eigenvalue Proportion Cumulative
1 9.60367 0.800306 0.80031
1.55020 0.129183 0.92949
3 0.37386 0.031155 0.96064
0.15351 0.012792 0.97344
5 0.09846 0.008205 0.98164
6 0.07305 0.006088 0.98773
7 0.04763 0.003969 0.99170
8 0.04040 0.003366 0.99506
9 0.02244 0.001870 0.99693
10 0.02160 0.001800 0.99873
11 0.01104 0.000920 0.99965
12 0.00415 0.000346 1.00000
Eigenvector
1 2 3 4
Torus (m)
0 - 35 0.203308 0.555506 0.400206 0.620572
35 - 50 0.229818 0.540319 0.047146 -0.327899
50 - 100 0.278782 0.355034 -0.060515 -0.480699
100 - 200 0.311778 0.108376 -0.152061 -0.202318
200 - 300 0.310611 -0.009812 -0.362922 0.248948
300 - 400 0.302714 -0.096353 -0.458429 0.113945
400 - 500 0.311076 -0.059952 -0.268037 0.320077
500 - 600 0.313938 -0.135022 -0.015865 0.119558
600 - 700 0.301831 -0.202820 0.304328 -0.059652
700 - 800 0.293962 -0.249340 0.355657 -0.126166
800 - 1000 0.282636 -0.302800 0.421441 -0.003102
1000 - 2000 0.300143 -0.188346 -0.011925 -0.155500
   Notes: Only the first four eigenvectors are shown.  These correspond to over 97% of the variation in primary forest cover within two kilometers of each of 23 study sites.



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