Rainfall and Elevation Influence the Local-Scale Distribution of Tree Community in the Southern Region of Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot (India)

Table 2

The different compositional attributes such as species richness, diversity indices, dominance index, stand density per hectare, and average basal area per hectare with respect to tree communities in Anamalai wildlife sanctuary, India.

Parameters	Tree community
	Evergreen	Shola	Semi evergreen	MDF	DDF	Thorny scrub
No. of species	81	17	55	32	18	27
Shannon diversity index	4.175	3.000	3.450	3.214	2.982	3.121
Simpson index of dominance	0.021	0.071	0.054	0.075	0.093	0.059
Simpson index of diversity	0.979	0.929	0.946	0.925	0.907	0.941
Stand density/ha.	347	446	276	192	212	69
Avg. Basal area/ha.	31.4	41.4	62.3	27.2	13.2	2.13

MDF: moist deciduous forest, DDF: dry deciduous forest.