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Published in final edited form as: Geospat Health. 2011 May;5(2):247–253. doi: 10.4081/gh.2011.177

Table 2.

Background similarity tests using Schoener’s D and the Hellinger distance I for climatic and remotely sensed data. The null hypothesis of niche similarity is rejected if test statistic values are below 0.025 (indicated with asterisks); reciprocal tests are presented (A–B, B–A).

Test caomarise		Climate			Remote sensing
		Overlap value	Background		Overlap value	Background
		Overlap value	A – B	B – A	Overlap value	A – B	B – A
^APoultry versus	D	0.676	0.00*	0.90	0.800	1.00	1.00
^BWild birds	I	0.649	0.00*	0.31	0.707	1.00	0.99
^AAnseriformes versus	D	0.476	0.21	1.00	0.357	0.19	0.94
^BFalconiformes	I	0.661	0.94	1.00	0.538	0.19	1.00
^ACygnus versus	D	0.785	0.95	0.78	0.754	0.73	1.00
^Bnon-Cygnus Anseriformes	I	0.842	1.00	1.00	0.681	0.74	1.00