Traditional ecological knowledge-based assessment of threatened woody species and their potential substitutes in the Atakora mountain chain, a threatened hotspot of biodiversity in Northwestern Benin, West Africa

Table 3 Similarity matrix (Jaccard’s coefficients) among sociolinguistic groups as regards the threatened and important woody species

	Bariba	Berba	Dendi	Fulfulde	Natimba	Otamari	Waama
Bariba	–	0.233 ^***	0.317 ^**	0.164 ns	0.224 ns	0.305 ^***	0.283 ^**
Berba	0.275 ^***	–	0.324 ^**	0.304 ns	0.370 ^***	0.387 ^***	0.483 ^***
Dendi	0.424 ns	0.358 ^***	–	0.345 ^***	0.484 ^*	0.405 ^**	0.444 ns
Fulfulde	0.412 ns	0.333 ^***	0.558 ns	–	0.421 ^*	0.269 ns	0.320 ns
Natimba	0.272 ^*	0.453 ^***	0.418 ^**	0.457 ^*	–	0.429 ^***	0.538 ^**
Otamari	0.319 ^***	0.355 ^***	0.466 ^**	0.370 ^**	0.449 ^***	–	0.484 ^***
Waama	0.360 ns	0.306 ^***	0.491 ns	0.511 ns	0.447 ^**	0.415 ns	–

Data in italics are Jaccard’s coefficients of important woody species
ns non-significant
^*P value ≤ 0.05, ^**P value ≤0.01, ^***P value ≤ 0.001. Differences were tested using Analysis of Similarities (ANOSIM)

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