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Table 3 Segregation of used and non-used devices according to microhabitat characteristics

From: Are all patches worth exploring? Foraging desert birds do not rely on environmental indicators of seed abundance at small scales

 

Observed/expected

C (Z)

P

Winter

 

0.271

0.873

 N11

131/134.5

(− 0.510)

0.610

 N00

32/32.5

(− 0.083)

0.934

Spring

 

12.747

0.002

 N11

85/63.2

(3.380)

0.001

 N00

103/87.2

(2.328)

0.020

Summer

 

5.895

0.052

 N11

61/47.0

(2.339)

0.019

 N00

119/109.0

(1.464)

0.143

Autumn

 

2.452

0.293

 N11

114/123.9

(− 1.457)

0.145

 N00

38/37.9

(0.012)

0.991

  1. Analysis of segregation of used and non-used devices in the 3D-space generated by the first three components of a PCA on ten variables measured at microhabitat scale. The observed and expected number of pairs of nearest-neighbour points that were both used (N11) or non-used (N00) in each seasonal experiment are shown, together with the statistic (C) testing for global spatial segregation between classes of points against the null hypothesis of “random labelling”, and the statistic (Z, between brackets) testing the same hypothesis for each kind of pair. A significantly higher number of pairs observed than expected indicates positive spatial correlation (aggregation, in italics)