Table 2. Statistical significance of the difference in importance to scientists (SC) and Managers (MA) of ecosystem services and Threats for Mountainous (MO) and Transitional Water (TW) Protected Areas (SC+MA means the data of SC and MA pooled together; MO+TW means the data of MO and TW pooled together).
–indicates no significant difference, ● means significant difference at the level p ≤ 0.05, ●● means p ≤ 0.01, and ●●● means p ≤ 0.005.
| MO vs. TW | SC vs. MA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SC+MA | SC | MA | MO+TW | MO | TW | ||
| Ecosystem Services | |||||||
| Leisure activities | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Habitat for feeding and breeding | - | ● | - | - | ● | - | |
| Animals of economic use | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Climate regulation | ●● | ● | - | - | - | ●● | |
| Waste and Toxicant mediation | ● | ● | - | - | ● | - | |
| Hunting | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Plants of economic use | - | - | - | ● | - | - | |
| Food provision for animals | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Biodiversity conservation | ●● | - | - | ● | - | - | |
| Charismatic landscape | - | - | - | ●● | - | ● | |
| Education and research | - | - | - | ●●● | ●● | ● | |
| Charismatic species | - | - | - | ● | - | - | |
| Sedimentological regulation | - | - | - | ● | - | ●●● | |
| Water regulation | - | - | - | ● | - | ●● | |
| Prevention of erosion | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Fire Protection | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Aesthetic qualities | - | - | ● | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | |
| Spiritual significance | - | - | - | ●●● | ●●● | ●●● | |
| Flood and coastal protection | - | - | - | ● | ● | - | |
| Pollination | - | - | - | ● | - | ●●● | |
| Energy production | - | - | - | ●●● | ● | ●●● | |
| Materials of economic use | ●● | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Total number significant differences | 4 / 22 | 3 / 22 | 1 / 22 | 12 / 22 | 7 / 22 | 9 / 22 | |
| Threats | |||||||
| Climate change | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Overexploitation | - | - | - | - | - | ● | |
| Fire | - | - | - | ● | ● | - | |
| Habitat loss | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (Illegal) human activities | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Exotic species | - | - | - | ●●● | - | ● | |
| Pollution | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Disturbance | - | - | - | ●● | ● | - | |
| Hydrological changes | - | - | - | - | - | ● | |
| Change in species | - | - | - | ● | - | ● | |
| Change in land use | - | - | - | ● | - | - | |
| Encroachment | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Hydrological changes | ●●● | ●●● | - | ● | - | - | |
| Diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Tourism | - | - | - | ●●● | ●● | ●●● | |
| Eutrophication | - | ● | - | ●●● | ●● | ● | |
| Predation | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Landscape disturbance | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Agriculture | - | - | - | ●●● | ●● | ●●● | |
| Fisheries | ● | - | ●● | ●●● | - | - | |
| Total number significant differences | 2 / 20 | 2 / 20 | 1 / 20 | 10 / 20 | 5 / 20 | 7 / 20 | |