Effect of Mining Activities in Biotic Communities of Villa de la Paz, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Table 3

Richness, total diversity, and by stratus for the RDS and the MDS.

Vegetation types		Contaminated		Reference
		Richness	Diversity	Richness	Diversity
RDS	Herbaceous	10	0.75	10	0.61
	Bushy	10	0.71*	9	0.51
	Total	20	1.03	19	0.82
MDS	Herbaceous	8	0.6*	17	1.04
	Bushy	5	0.55*	15	0.98
	Subarboreal	2	0.05*	1	0
	Total	13*	0.88*	32	1.28

^∗𝑃<0.05.