Impacts of Industrialization on Plant Species Composition, Diversity, and Tree Population Structure in Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest in Bangladesh

Table 5

Phytosociological analysis of forest species in three distant sites of the study area.

Classes	Site-1	Site-2	Site-3	F value	value
Number of families	9	19	30	—	—
Number of genera	10	24	34	—	—
Density (N ha ^−1 )
Mature trees	257 ± 16.03^c	587 ± 75.10^b	713 ± 124.58^a	368.70	0.000
Saplings	103 ± 4.15b	213 ± 17.71a	233 ± 10.86a	12.40	0.0006
Shrubs	37 ± 11.67^c	447 ± 51.07^b	1103 ± 264.02^a	21.29	0.0002
Seedlings	147 ± 4.16^c	1130 ± 167.47^b	2327 ± 254.95^a	638.32	0.0000
Climbers	—	26.67 ± 1.02^b	56.67 ± 14.97^a	25.00	0.0055
Basal area (m^2 ha^−1) of mature trees	8.06 ± 0.60^c	19.62 ± 2.54^b	24.52 ± 4.06^a	46.32	0.0000