Effects of Environmental and Disturbance Factors on Plant Community Distribution in Tropical Moist Afromontane Forests, South-West Ethiopia

Table 11

Scores of constraining variables and correlations between environmental and disturbance factors with CCA axes in MFBR.

Environmental variables	CCA1	CCA2	CCA3	CCA4
Hca	0.429	−0.128	0.160	−0.541
HI	0.522	0.028	0.207	0.335
Ele	0.868	0.066	0.100	−0.014
Slope	0.638	−0.238	0.135	−0.280
pH	−0.907	0.047	−0.029	−0.020
Silt	−0.792	0.060	−0.187	−0.243
Eigenvalue	0.544	0.044	0.040	0.033
Proportion explained	0.763	0.062	0.057	0.046
Cumulative proportion	0.763	0.825	0.882	0.928

Note. Hca = herbaceous cover, HI = harvesting index, Ele = elevation, and MFBR = Majang Forest Biosphere Reserve.