Effect of Small-Scale Variations in Environmental Factors on the Distribution of Woody Species in Tropical Deciduous Forests of Vindhyan Highlands, India

Table 2

Average values of the phytosociological parameters in the two groups of experimental plots separated on the basis of the selected environmental variables.

Parameters	Group 1	Group 2
Total number of species	43	35
Number of species per ha	22	14
Number of exclusive species	13	5
Number of stems per ha	14200	7360
Species richness (Margalef)	5.28	4.65
Species evenness (Whittaker)	7.40	6.78
Shannon-Wiener index	2.94	2.94
Simpson’s index	0.07	0.07
Beta diversity	2.67	3.14