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Table 2 Importance of variables to each of the 3 PCA principal components

From: How do lizard niches conserve, diverge or converge? Further exploration of saurian evolutionary ecology

Variable

PC 1

PC 2

PC 3

Contrib (%)

Corr

P

Contrib (%)

Corr

P

Contrib (%)

Corr

P

Ecomorphology

28.1

0.84

 < 0.0001

11.32

0.39

 < 0.0001

0.09

Habitat

0.04

47.92

− 0.8

 < 0.0001

10.28

− 0.31

0.0003

Life history

32.17

0.9

 < 0.0001

3.75

3.12

Trophic

8.37

− 0.46

 < 0.0001

30.94

0.64

 < 0.0001

0.02

Metabolic

5.48

0.37

 < 0.0001

4.5

83.04

0.87

 < 0.0001

Defense

25.84

0.81

 < 0.0001

1.57

3.45

  1. The most important functional variables for each component are in bold. Correlation (Corr) and significance (P) of variables with a contribution (Contrib) < 5% were not calculated