Agriculture & Food Security

Table 5 Spearman correlation among mineral contents 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

	P	K	Ca	Mg	Mn	Cu	Fe	Zn
P	1
K	0.286^c	1
Ca	− 0.172	0.097	1
Mg	− 0.183^c	0.028	0.585^a	1
Mn	− 0.261^c	− 0.315^b	0.315^b	0.23^c	1
Cu	0.493^a	− 0.192	− 0.275^c	0.012	0.223	1
Fe	0.09	− 0.432^a	− 0.138	− 0.226^c	0.221	0.296^b	1
Zn	0.515^a	0.141	− 0.147	0.251^c	0.005	0.61^a	0.075	1

^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level; ^b correlation is significant at the 0.01 level; ^ccorrelation is significant at 0.05 level

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