Ecological Archives E085-086-A3

David A. Nipperess and Andrew J. Beattie. 2004. Morphological dispersion of Rhytidoponera assemblages: the importance of spatial scale and null model. Ecology 85:2728–2736.

Appendix C. The results of principal components analysis of the entire Sturt assemblage of Rhytidoponera OTUs.

Character loadings
Character PC I PC II
Distance between eyes
0.2150
0.4318
Length of eye
0.1995
- 0.1841
Length of mid-femur
0.4839
- 0.1519
Length of petiole
0.2387
0.7680
Length of scape
0.4177
- 0.3491
Landmarks 1 to 2
0.3448
0.0990
Landmarks 1 to 5
0.3610
- 0.1772
Landmarks 3 to 4
0.3294
- 0.0218
Weber's Length
0.3011
0.0562
PCA statistics
Statistic PC I PC II
Eigenvalue
0.1074
0.0038
% variance
90.86
3.21

 



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