Tree Diversity and Community Composition of the Tutong White Sands, Brunei Darussalam: A Rare Tropical Heath Forest Ecosystem

Table 4

Species richness, abundance, Shannon’s index, evenness, and inverse Simpson’s index of trees in six plots in the Tutong White Sands. Values are mean ± SE. Within each column, values followed by different letters are significantly different at α = 0.05.

Plot number	Species richness	Abundance	Shannon’s index	Evenness	Inverse Simpson’s index
1	8.0 ± 0.8	10.5 ± 1.3	1.99 ± 0.09	0.96 ± 0.01	6.80 ± 0.55
2	9.8 ± 1.4	16.8 ± 2.4	2.14 ± 0.14	0.95 ± 0.01	8.00 ± 1.19
3	1.3 ± 0.3	4.8 ± 1.3	0.13 ± 0.13	0.18 ± 0.18	1.12 ± 0.12
4	7.3 ± 1.0	15.3 ± 2.3	1.70 ± 0.16	0.86 ± 0.03	4.55 ± 0.88
5	12.0 ± 1.5	19.0 ± 3.1	2.28 ± 0.11	0.93 ± 0.02	8.06 ± 0.94
6	4.5 ± 0.7	7.9 ± 2.3	1.38 ± 0.11	0.94 ± 0.02	3.72 ± 0.32