Composition of Periphyton Community on Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes): In Analysis of Environmental Characteristics at Ejirin Part of Epe Lagoon in Southwestern Nigeria

Table 4

Biological indices parameters at Ejirin, part of Epe Lagoon, from December 2012 to May 2013.

Periphyton taxa	December	January	February	March	April	May
Total species diversity ()	24	26	23	63	41	49
Total abundance () cellsmL^−1	1169	738	2009	3490	3363	3767
Shannon-Wiener index ()	1.17	1.28	1.15	1.47	1.26	1.27
Margalef’s index ()	3.26	3.79	2.89	7.6	4.93	5.83