Research Article
Diversity, Species Composition, and Relative Abundance of Avifauna at Debre Libanos Monastery, Ethiopia
Table 2
Bird species abundance, diversity, richness, and evenness during the wet and dry seasons.
| Habitats | Season | Species richness | Abundance | H′ | Hmax = Ln (S) | E = H′/Hmax |
| Natural forest | Wet | 41 | 977 | 2.93 | 3.71 | 0.79 | Dry | 37 | 349 | 3.47 | 3.61 | 0.96 |
| Cliff/riverine forest | Wet | 23 | 418 | 2.79 | 3.14 | 0.89 | Dry | 28 | 366 | 2.76 | 3.33 | 0.83 |
| Plantation | Wet | 11 | 151 | 2.07 | 2.40 | 0.86 | Dry | 15 | 106 | 2.56 | 2.71 | 0.95 |
| Settlement | Wet | 17 | 279 | 2.16 | 2.78 | 0.78 | Dry | 16 | 184 | 2.47 | 2.77 | 0.89 |
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H′: Shannon–Weiner index; H′/Hmax: evenness (E); Hmax: Ln (S); S: the total number of species.
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