Table 4 Spearman Rank Order Correlation coefficients for cranial variables and morphospace axes (E1-E6, K1-K3) in M. eversmanii.
Variables | Size diversity model | Shape diversity model | r2 | |||||||||
E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | K1 | K2 | K3 | ||||
CbL | 0.93 | -0.09 | -0.14 | 0.09 | 0.05 | -0.12 | 0.48 | -0.32 | -0.09 | 0.98 | ||
NcL | 0.71 | 0.22 | 0.20 | 0.30 | -0.13 | -0.29 | 0.27 | -0.09 | 0.01 | 0.93 | ||
VcL | 0.83 | -0.28 | -0.13 | -0.18 | 0.07 | -0.02 | 0.64 | -0.36 | -0.06 | 0.95 | ||
PL | 0.85 | -0.10 | -0.15 | -0.11 | -0.02 | -0.14 | 0.48 | -0.39 | 0.05 | 0.90 | ||
MxtL | 0.83 | 0.09 | -0.14 | -0.14 | -0.20 | -0.16 | 0.32 | -0.54 | 0.00 | 0.94 | ||
Pm4L | 0.66 | 0.39 | -0.27 | 0.01 | -0.20 | 0.04 | 0.05 | -0.49 | 0.08 | 0.82 | ||
BcL | 0.82 | -0.10 | -0.01 | 0.40 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.43 | -0.07 | -0.23 | 0.96 | ||
AbL | 0.80 | -0.12 | -0.03 | 0.36 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.40 | -0.07 | -0.29 | 0.93 | ||
ZyW | 0.89 | -0.12 | 0.24 | -0.07 | 0.07 | 0.02 | 0.63 | -0.05 | 0.17 | 0.94 | ||
MW | 0.85 | -0.25 | 0.09 | -0.16 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.70 | -0.15 | 0.12 | 0.93 | ||
PoW | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.80 | -0.16 | -0.15 | -0.10 | 0.12 | 0.24 | 0.28 | 0.95 | ||
IW | 0.87 | -0.16 | 0.10 | -0.18 | 0.14 | -0.12 | 0.65 | -0.23 | 0.13 | 0.90 | ||
RW | 0.90 | 0.08 | 0.01 | -0.06 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.47 | -0.21 | 0.24 | 0.93 | ||
GpW | 0.83 | 0.22 | 0.00 | -0.03 | -0.09 | 0.11 | 0.31 | -0.23 | 0.22 | 0.89 | ||
AbW | 0.83 | -0.07 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.80 | ||
M1W | 0.56 | 0.48 | -0.08 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 0.44 | 0.01 | -0.12 | 0.26 | 0.89 | ||
CH | 0.74 | -0.15 | 0.30 | -0.07 | -0.09 | 0.22 | 0.59 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.90 | ||
ML | 0.92 | -0.08 | -0.06 | -0.04 | 0.03 | -0.11 | 0.54 | -0.30 | -0.02 | 0.97 | ||
AL | 0.92 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.08 | 0.04 | -0.08 | 0.54 | -0.32 | 0.04 | 0.96 | ||
MatL | 0.82 | 0.17 | -0.17 | -0.17 | -0.09 | -0.13 | 0.24 | -0.53 | 0.19 | 0.94 | ||
m1L | 0.66 | 0.35 | -0.31 | -0.05 | -0.35 | -0.07 | 0.02 | -0.56 | 0.08 | 0.90 | ||
MaH | 0.83 | -0.09 | 0.09 | -0.32 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.63 | -0.28 | 0.27 | 0.91 | ||
MpW | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.00 | -0.04 | 0.46 | -0.15 | 0.05 | -0.17 | 0.28 | 0.96 | ||
Analysis of NMDS axes variance | ||||||||||||
Components of variance, % | Wilks tests | |||||||||||
Factor: “sex” | 85.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0 | 52.9 | 15.3 | 0 | 17.7 (p < 0.01) | ||
Unexplained variance | 14.7 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99.4 | 100 | 47.1 | 84.7 | 100 |
r2– coefficient of multiple determination in the linear multiple regression model: y=a1E1+a2E2+a3E3+b1K1+b2K2+b3K3+const