Diversity, Abundance, and Distribution of Avifauna in District Jhang, Pakistan

Table 3

Comparison in diversity between Thal desert and Trimmu barrage in different months by test and Shannon diversity index.

Month	Thal desert			Trimmu barrage			-value	value
	S	H’	Var H	S	H’	Var H
Mar	35	3.170	0.00051	45	3.207	0.00071	1.28^NS	0.100
Apr	34	2.910	0.00068	43	3.012	0.00072	7.86	0.000
May	34	2.989	0.00102	37	2.990	0.00055	9.90	0.000
June	35	3.090	0.00083	38	2.993	0.00092	4.10	0.000
July	34	2.801	0.00074	40	2.991	0.00084	4.50	0.000
Aug	37	3.119	0.00067	35	2. 941	0.00076	3.62	0.000
Sep	32	2.734	0.00096	35	2.901	0.00130	1.98	0.024
Oct	31	2.704	0.00160	35	3.013	0.00162	1.07^NS	0.142
Nov	37	3.092	0.00136	47	3.264	0.00070	2.06	0.020
Dec	35	3.179	0.00081	51	3.391	0.00049	2.60	0.005
Jan	38	3.292	0.00093	51	3.450	0.00037	0.00^NS	0.500
Feb	35	3.067	0.00065	48	3.314	0.00054	6.81	0.000
Total	45	3.342	0.00007	58	3.351	0.00007	0.77^NS	0.222

Key: S: number of species (richness); H’: Shannon’s diversity index; NS: nonsignificant (); significant (); highly significant ().