Table 2.

Classification of Spatial point patterns of common milkweed shoots based on nearest neighbor analysis (NNI) using data from drone and ground surveys across 12 transects. The analysis was conducted in arcmap (version 10.7) using Euclidean distance to calculate nearest neighbor z-scores and corresponding p-values. A significance threshold of p = 0.05 was used; values above this were considered statistically non-significant (i.e. random pattern).

Transect No.	Ground survey			Drone survey
	z-score	p-value	Point patterns	z-score	p-value	Point patterns
1	−0.373	0.710	random	1.633	0.102	random
2	−2.705	0.007	clustered	−0.787	0.431	random
3	−1.524	0.127	random	0.785	0.433	random
4	1.433	0.152	random	1.350	0.177	random
5	−1.317	0.188	random	−0.190	0.850	random
6	−0.519	0.603	random	1.148	0.251	random
7	−0.292	0.770	random	−0.063	0.950	random
8	−1.965	0.049	clustered	−0.200	0.842	random
9	1.150	0.250	random	2.408	0.016	dispersed
10	0.537	0.591	random	1.233	0.217	random
11	−2.259	0.024	clustered	−1.194	0.232	random
12	0.776	0.438	random	2.502	0.012	dispersed