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. 2015 Jun 1;112(26):8019–8024. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503283112

Table 1.

Intra- and interspecific dietary overlap calculated using occurrence- (below diagonal) and RRA-based data (above diagonal)

Grazers Nongrazers
Species Plains zebra Grevy’s zebra Cattle Buffalo Dik-dik Impala Elephant Intraspecific means*
Plains zebra 0.720 0.815 0.778 0.997 0.898 0.910 0.484d
Grevy’s zebra 0.434 0.717 0.798 0.987 0.793 0.843 0.589c
Cattle 0.579 0.512 0.718 0.881 0.684 0.847 0.516c
Buffalo 0.577 0.609 0.564 0.921 0.793 0.860 0.654b
Dik-dik 0.988 0.959 0.823 0.832 0.795 0.791 0.732a
Impala 0.747 0.679 0.558 0.629 0.640 0.720 0.632bc
Elephant 0.728 0.684 0.697 0.679 0.750 0.579 0.508b
Intraspecific means* 0.297d 0.396c 0.408c 0.467b 0.541a 0.427bc 0.466b

Values are weighted means of Bray–Curtis dissimilarities (low values = high overlap).

*

Superscripts reflect significant pairwise differences in intraspecific variation, measured as dispersion (occurrence-based permutation test, F6,285 = 16.94, P ≤ 0.001; RRA-based permutation test F6,285 = 12.88, P ≤ 0.001).