Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of the flying foxes’ colonies and vicinity
| Statistics | Size (m 2 ) | Distance from each colony | Elevation (m) | Human density (people/km 2 ) | Land cover in 10 km. of radius (m 2 ) | **NDVI | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To nearest neighbor (km) | To nearest water (m) | To nearest temple (m) | Forest | Irrigated vegetation | Settlement/rainfed vegetation | Bodies of water | |||||
| Median | 6562 | 23.2 | 120 | 262 | 9 | 232.07 | 259 | 246700 | 55840 | 3805 | 0.0119 |
| *SD | 8595 | 12.5 | 1442 | 683 | 13 | 339.39 | 4493 | 61194 | 47550 | 10017 | 0.0686 |
| Minimum | 1463 | 13.0 | 30 | 42 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 88680 | 14510 | 437 | −0.1061 |
| Maximum | 30751 | 57.7 | 4815 | 2704 | 65 | 1307.15 | 16450 | 331800 | 158600 | 40470 | 0.1429 |
*Standard deviation **Normalized difference vegetation index.
Descriptive statistics of environmental, geographical, and anthropogenic factors of 22 colonies of flying fox on the central plain of Thailand.