The Effects of Landscape Change on Plant Diversity and Structure in the Bale Mountains National Park, Southeastern Ethiopia

Table 3

Mean (±SE) values of species richness and diversity indices.

Diversity indices	Edge habitat	Interior habitat
Species richness (S)	35 ± 4.2^a	29 ± 3.6^b
Simpson index (D)	0.10 ± 0.02	0.11 ± 0.03
Shannon–Wiener index (H′)	2.93 ± 0.17^a	2.43 ± 0.11^b
Pielou’s evenness index (J′)	0.79 ± 0.05	0.83 ± 0.04
Whittaker β-diversity ()	1.83 ± 0.26	1.34 ± 0.31
Margalef index (DM)	5.68 ± 0.69^a	3.72 ± 0.92^b
Berger–Parker index (d)	0.19 ± 0.03	0.24 ± 0.04

Note. Values with different letters indicate significant differences between habitats ().