Research Article
To What Extent Do Protected Areas Determine the Conservation of Native Flora? A Case Study in the Sudanian Zone of Burkina Faso
Table 2
Similarity in the species composition between vegetation communities in two management regimes in western Burkina Faso.
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PAs: protected areas, UAs: unprotected areas, and Gf: gallery forests; Shs: shrub savannas, Ts: tree savannas, Ws: woodland savannas, and W: woodlands. Jaccard’s similarity index and Morisita’s index were computed to evaluate the similarity between vegetation communities. Both indices vary between 0 and 1: a value close to 1 indicates a greater similarity between sites and hence low -diversity. |