A preliminary investigation of the relationship between water quality and Anopheles gambiae larval habitats in western Cameroon

Table 2 Pearson’s product moment correlations among the variables measured in the larval habitat survey conducted in north-western Cameroon

	Longitude	Latitude	Temp.	pH	Cond.	TDS	Form	*2La*	Sex
Long.	1.000	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.036	0.032	<0.001	<0.001	0.005
Lat.	0.993 ^**	1.000	<0.001	<0.001	0.036	0.039	<0.001	<0.001	0.004
Temp.	−0.817 ^**	−0.779 ^**	1.000	0.266	0.124	0.107	<0.001	<0.001	0.074
pH	0.331 ^**	0.361 ^**	0.104	1.000	<0.001	<0.001	0.162	0.217	0.018
Cond.	0.196 ^*	0.195 ^*	−0.144	0.655 ^**	1.000	<0.001	<0.001	0.980	0.180
TDS	0.200 ^*	0.193 ^*	−0.151	0.646 ^**	0.995 ^**	1.000	<0.001	0.964	0.217
Form	−0.484 ^**	−0.467 ^**	0.612 ^**	−0.131	−0.359 ^**	−0.349 ^**	1.000	0.001	0.128
2La	0.654 ^**	0.655 ^**	−0.555 ^**	0.117	−0.002	−0.004	−0.320 ^**	1.000	0.094
Sex	−0.257 ^**	−0.263 ^**	0.167	−0.220 ^*	−0.126	−0.116	0.143	−0.158	1.000

Upper triangle matric indicates P-values and lower triangle matric indicate Pearson Correlation. Temp. stands for Temperature and Cond. for conductivity.
**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).

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