Advances in Ecology

Research Article

Effects of Mangrove Zonation and the Physicochemical Parameters of Soil on the Distribution of Macrobenthic Fauna in Kadolkele Mangrove Forest, a Tropical Mangrove Forest in Sri Lanka

Table 3

Variation of the total abundance (), species richness (SR), species heterogeneity (), and species evenness () of the infaunal community between the 3 mangrove zones in Kadolkele mangrove forest ( = 60 soil core samples in each zone).
Measure of the infaunal diversityRhizophora zoneAvicennia zoneLumnitzera zone
Total abundance ()1250372
Species richness (SR)307
Species heterogeneity ()0.1900.29
Species evenness ()0.17āˆž0.15