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. 2011 Jun 29;6(6):e21710. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021710

Table 2. Pairwise Spearman rank correlations of family and guild richness and abundance of studied sites.

	USA	Portugal (Gerês)	Portugal (Arrábida)	Guyana	Cameroon	Tanzania	Madagascar
Richness
USA	1	0.814^*	0.874^**	0.777^*	0.635	0.802^*	0.599
Portugal (Gerês)	0.122	1	0.857^**	0.778^*	0.833^*	0.881^**	0.857^**
Portugal (Arrábida)	0.299	0.724^*	1	0.850^**	0.881^**	0.976^***	0.810^*
Guyana	0.216	0.834^**	0.801^*	1	0.898^**	0.826^*	0.874^**
Cameroon	0.180	0.700	0.633	0.946^***	1	0.905^**	0.976^***
Tanzania	0.619	0.732^*	0.778^*	0.814^*	0.755^*	1	0.833^*
Madagascar	−0.238	0.708^*	0.611	0.850^**	0.886^**	0.524	1
Abundance
USA	1	0.762^*	0.690	0.762^*	0.762^*	0.762^*	0.643
Portugal (Gerês)	0.725^*	1	0.952^***	0.905^**	1.000^***	0.952^***	0.952^***
Portugal (Arrábida)	0.691	0.852^**	1	0.786^*	0.952^***	0.929^***	0.929^***
Guyana	0.123	0.515	0.158	1	0.905^**	0.762^*	0.905^**
Cameroon	−0.122	0.439	0.193	0.802^*	1	0.952^***	0.952^***
Tanzania	0.220	0.146	0.133	0.479	0.500	1	0.833^*
Madagascar	−0.146	0.390	0.205	0.479	0.548	−0.143	1

Family below and guild above diagonals. For family richness and abundance we only used the eight most rich or abundant families on average for all sites.

*p<0.05;

**p<0.01;

***p<0.001.