Ecological Study of the Vegetation in the Loka Abaya National Park, Ethiopia

Table 9

Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient between environmental variables which significantly explain the variation in species distribution and community composition.

Variables	Altitude	CEC	K	Mg	Na	Sand	Slope	SMC
Altitude	1.00
CEC	−0.18^ns	1.00
K	−0.12^ns	0.16^ns	1.00
Mg	−0.11^ns	0.15^ns	−0.02^ns	1.00
Na		−0.01^ns	0.14^ns	0.13^ns	1.00
pH			0.07^ns
Sand			−0.05^ns	0.04^ns	0.00^ns	1.00
Slope		−0.10^ns	−0.08^ns	0.02^ns	−0.13^ns		1.00
SMC	−0.17^ns	−0.00^ns	−0.07^ns	0.06^ns	0.00^ns		−0.13^ns	1.00

 = ;  = ;  = ; ns = not significant.