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Table 3 Pearson correlations of all variables examined in this study with PTs of wildcats ( n = 39)

From: Monitoring European wildcat Felis silvestris populations using scat surveys in central Spain: are population trends related to wild rabbit dynamics or to landscape features?

Variable

Wildcat PTs

Months between samplings

0.03

Pastureland cover

0.15

Cropland cover

0

Scrubland cover

−0.22

Forest cover

−0.04

Urban cover

−0.16

Roughness index

−0.15

Number of watercourses

−0.12

PCA factor 1

−0.07

PCA factor 2

−0.16

Rabbit population trends

−0.05

  1. No correlation was significant. PCA, principal component analysis.