Influence of weather on the behaviour of reintroduced Przewalski’s horses in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area (Mongolia): implications for conservation

Table 4 Scores of the six weather variables used in the factor analysis

	F1-T	F2-H	F3-Mag	F4-Alt	F5-Wind	F6-Cloud
% Variance explained	28.234	13.653	13.511	13.414	11.839	11.300
Eigenvalue	4.517	2.185	2.162	2.146	1.894	1.808
MG (mag)	0.099	0.100	0.940	0.099	0.172	0.047
TR (True)	0.099	0.100	0.940	0.099	0.172	0.047
WS (m/s)	0.042	−0.045	0.135	0.069	0.955	0.054
CW (m/s)	0.039	0.027	0.182	0.094	0.942	0.082
HW (m/s)	−0.023	0.016	0.493	0.042	0.017	0.081
TP (°C)	0.984	−0.149	0.028	0.073	0.041	−0.008
WC (°C)	0.987	−0.132	0.013	0.064	− 0.014	− 0.010
RH (%)	− 0.393	0.866	0.076	−0.011	− 0.050	0.219
HI (°C)	0.991	−0.026	0.046	0.079	0.044	0.015
DP (°C)	0	0.962	0.115	0.090	0.013	0.099
WB (°C)	0.740	0.631	0.114	0.086	0.020	0.146
BP (mb)	−0.182	−0.056	−0.124	−0.970	− 0.086	0.015
AL (m)	0.182	0.057	0.124	0.970	0.085	−0.013
DA (m)	0.889	−0.038	0.079	0.444	0.067	0.001
Clouds (location)	−0.053	0.143	0.055	−0.034	0.075	0.931
Clouds (whole)	0.094	0.134	0.160	0.009	0.060	0.917

The significant structuring variables (> 0.8, following [44]) are indicated in bold characters
MG (mag) magnetic heading, TR (True) true heading, WS (m/s) windspeed, CW (m/s) crosswind calculation, HW (m/s) headwind/tailwind, TP (°C) temperature, WC (°C) windchill, RH (%) relative humidity, HI (°C) heat stress index, DP (°C) dewpoint temperature, WB (°C) wet bulb temperature, BP (mb) barometric pressure, AL (m) altitude, DA (m) density altitude, clouds (location) = % of cloud cover in the place of observation, clouds (whole) = % of cloud cover in the observable surrounding

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