Agriculture & Food Security

Table 4 Spearman correlation among nutritional components across all the specimens, N = 80

From: Nutritive values of seven high priority indigenous fodder tree species in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in Eastern Ethiopia

	DM	Ash	OM	NDF	ADF	Hecell	Lignin	CP	IVDOMD
DM	1
Ash	− 0.59^a	1
OM	0.59^a	− 1^a	1
NDF	− 0.677^a	0.042	− 0.042	1
ADF	− 0.627^a	− 0.199	− 0.199	0.732^a	1
Hecell	− 0.766^a	0.316^b	− 0.316^b	0.891^a	0.532^a	1
Lignin	0.803^a	− 0.491^a	0.491^a	− 0.657^a	− 0.699^a	− 0.733^a	1
CP	0.189	− 0.122	0.122	− 0.388^a	− 0.06	− 0.49^a	0.3^b	1
IVDOMD	0.544^a	− 0.206	0.206	− 0.742^a	− 0.923^a	− 0.592^a	0.589^a	0.086	1

^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.001 level; ^b correlation is significant at 0.05 level

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