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 6

Variation of the total abundance (), species richness (SR), species heterogeneity (), and species evenness () of epifaunal community between the 3 mangrove zones in Kadolkele mangrove forest ( = 12 quadrat samples from each zone).
Measure of the epifaunal diversityRhizophora zoneAvicennia zoneLumnitzera zone
Total abundance ()1123257746
Species richness (SR)1054
Species heterogeneity ()1.161.150.61
Species evenness ()0.50.710.44