Table 3. Summary Statistic of canonical correspondence analysis(CCA) with environment.

Abiotic Environment Biotic Environment
Axis1 Axis2 Axis3 Axis1 Axis2 Axis3
Eigenvalue 0.974 0.606 0.139 0.781 0.435 0.162
Variance in species data % of variance explained 15.8 9.8 2.2 12.7 7.0 2.6
Cumulative % explained 15.8 25.6 27.9 12.7 19.7 22.4
Pearson Correlation, Species-Environmental* 0.999 0.987 0.701 0.910 0.863 0.756
Kendall(Rank) Corr., Species-Environmental 0.576 0.720 0.530 0.714 0.661 0.527
means the correlation between sample scores for an axis derived from the species data and the sample scores that are linear combinations of the environmental variables. Set to 0.000 if axis is not canonical