BMC Ecology

Table 2 Principal Components Analysis of vegetation and litter characteristics at the microhabitat scale

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

	PC1	PC2	PC3
Grasses	0.334	− 0.138	0.648
Dry standing grasses	0.085	0.061	0.752
Low shrubs	0.502	0.339	− 0.435
Tall shrubs (< 1 m)	0.789	− 0.392	0.129
Tall shrubs (> 1 m)	0.767	− 0.396	0.133
Trees (< 1 m)	0.017	0.850	0.040
Trees (> 1 m)	0.121	0.865	− 0.128
No vegetation	− 0.872	− 0.162	− 0.176
Bare ground	− 0.875	− 0.301	− 0.167
Dense litter	0.877	0.292	0.094
Eigenvalue	3.892	2.121	1.295
% variability explained	38.9	21.2	12.9
% variability accumulated	38.9	60.1	73.1

Results of the Principal Components Analysis of the ten variables measured at the microhabitat scale. Main loadings for the three retained components are shown in italics

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