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Table 1 Statistics of ecological niche breadth and overlap for members of the An. gambiae complex in Cameroon

From: Ecological niche partitioning between Anopheles gambiae molecular forms in Cameroon: the ecological side of speciation

Species1:

An. gambiae S

An. gambiae M

An. gambiae S

Index

vs.

vs.

vs.

Species2:

An. arabiensis

An. arabiensis

An. gambiae M

Niche breadth

   

Standardized Levin's B*

0.416/0.164

0.376/0.230

0.449/0.308

Hurlbert's B'

0.509/0.276

0.161/0.407

0.702/0.295

Niche overlap

   

Hurlbert's overlap (L)

1.794

0.673

1.471

Lloyd's interspecific patchiness (I)

2.789

0.870

2.120

Lloyd's asymmetric niche overlap (Zx(y))

10.49/18.07

3.27/1.34

3.26/13.74

  1. Indices of ecological niche breadth and overlap [64] calculated over the first discriminant axis segregating Species 1 from Species 2 of a pair (cf. Figure 4).