Response of tropical avifauna to visitor recreational disturbances: a case study from the Sinharaja World Heritage Forest, Sri Lanka

Table 2 One-way ANOVA for the dependence of bird abundance on the intensity of recreational disturbances at different distances from the trail

Distance from trail (m)	Mean number of birds				One-way ANOVA		Pearson’s correlation
Distance from trail (m)	NRD	LRD	MRD	HRD	F	p	r	p
0	1.53^a	1.17^a	0.70^b	0.28^b	12.255	0.001*	−0.134	0.001*
75	0.54^a	0.81	0.80	0.92^b	3.066	0.027*	0.064	0.006*
150	0.36^a	0.53^b	0.67^b	0.75^b	6.848	0.001*	0.104	0.001*

Items with different superscripts (lowercase letters) indicate significant difference of means according to Games-Howell post hoc tests. Items without superscripts do not significantly differ from ones with superscripts
* Statistical significance at α = 0.05 level

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