Investigating criteria for valuation of forage resources by local agro-pastoralists in West Africa: using quantitative ethnoecological approach

Table 4 Results of testing fixed-effects of aridity class variable using generalized linear mixed-effects (GLMM) on number of local valuation criteria cited by agro-pastoralists for (I) rainy season (Cri_RS), (II) dry season (Cri_DS) and (III) cattle (Cri_cattle), while aridity class and educational background of local agro-pastoralists influenced (IV) goats (Cri_goats) and (V) sheep (Cri_sheep) as metric of regional-level variance. Detailed corresponding follow-up post hoc tests for the analysis of deviance results using Wald chi-square (χ²) tests were also calculated

Valuation criteria	Cri_RS	Cri_DS	Cri_cattle	Cri_goats	Cri_sheep
(Intercept), χ²	13.00	8.61	6.94	8.19	9.32
Aridity class, χ²	70.17	107.17	58.92	62.39	74.95
Marginal, R_m² (%)	21	23	23	24	25
Conditional, R_c² (%)	23	23	26	26	26
p	***	***	***	***	***

Random effect = ~ 1|Village/Aridity class (village nested within aridity class variable to account for site-specific variations)
DSA dry semi-arid, MSA moist semi-arid, DSH dry sub-humid, HUM humid
p* = < 0.05, **p = < 0.01, ***p = < 0.001; Df = 1 for “Intercept” and 3 for “Aridity class” in each criterion case

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