Table 1.
Pearson's correlation matrix for seven vegetation types, two climatic variables and one geographical variable characterizing gorilla groups' MCPs (area of 500-m buffered minimum convex polygon of detected nest sites per gorilla group; see Minimum convex polygon calculation for details). Vegetation types were computed as % of each group's MCP; elevation, annual temperature and annual precipitation were expressed as means for each group's MCP. Bamboo vegetation included both pure and mixed types. ‘f.’ = forest, ‘w.’ = woodland.
| Bamboo | Closed mixed f. | Hagenia f. | Herbaceous | Hypericum w. | Neoboutonia f. | Open mixed f. | Precipitation | Temperature | Elevation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bamboo | 1 | −0.20 | −0.19 | −0.32 | −0.54 | −0.28 | −0.18 | −0.30 | 0.27 | −0.36 |
| Closed mixed f. | 1 | −0.14 | −0.21 | −0.25 | 0.54 | 0.51 | −0.29 | 0.43 | −0.44 | |
| Hagenia f. | 1 | −0.15 | 0.32 | −0.12 | −0.25 | 0.41 | −0.47 | 0.55 | ||
| Herbaceous | 1 | −0.07 | −0.22 | −0.13 | 0.14 | −0.08 | 0.13 | |||
| Hypericum w. | 1 | −0.25 | −0.44 | 0.64 | −0.75 | 0.85 | ||||
| Neoboutonia f. | 1 | 0.25 | −0.31 | 0.46 | −0.47 | |||||
| Open mixed f. | 1 | −0.49 | 0.52 | −0.61 | ||||||
| Precipitation | 1 | −0.39 | 0.75 | |||||||
| Temperature | 1 | −0.88 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 1 |