Butterfly Diversity and Abundance in the Middle Afromontane Area of Northwestern Ethiopia

Table 5

Diversity indices for butterfly communities at different habitat types.

	Forest edges	Woody forest	Grass land	Open grassland	Wet land	Open land	Cultivated land
Mount Bezawit
Taxa (S)	5	3	1	1	1	4	1
Individuals	3072	3455	148	160	287	411	161
Dominance (D)	0.315	0.379	1	1	1	0.267	1
Simpson (1-D)	0.685	0.621	0	0	0	0.733	0
Shannon (H′)	1.328	1.02	0	0	0	1.353	0
Evenness (e^H/S)	0.754	0.925	1	1	1	0.968	1
Brillouin	1.323	1.018	0	0	0	1.332	0
Menhinick	0.090	0.051	0.082	0.079	0.0591	0.197	0.079
Margalef	0.498	0.246	0	0	0	0.499	0
Equitability (J)	0.825	0.929				0.976
Fisher alpha	0.584	0.323	0.144	0.142	0.130	0.615	0.142
Berger–Parker	0.467	0.425	1	1	1	0.343	1
Chao 1	5	3	1	1	1	4	1
Alemsaga
Taxa (S)	7	6	1	1		5
Individuals	3172	4837	276	291		824
Dominance (D)	0.270	0.207	1	1		0.275
Simpson (1-D)	0.730	0.793	0	0		0.725
Shannon (H′)	1.577	1.675	0	0		1.397
Evenness (e^H/S)	0.691	0.8890	1	1		0.809
Brillouin	1.57	1.671	0	0		1.382
Menhinick	0.124	0.086	0.060	0.0589		0.174
Margalef	0.744	0.589	0	0		0.596
Equitability (J)	0.810	0.935				0.868
Fisher alpha	0.851	0.676	0.1306	0.130		0.708
Berger–Parker	0.444	0.285	1	1		0.353
Chao 1	7	6	1	1		5
Tara Gedam
Taxa (S)	8	7	1	2	1	6
Individuals	3498	5576	205	233	103	859
Dominance (D)	0.257	0.180	1	0.918	1	0.235
Simpson (1-D)	0.743	0.820	0	0.082	0	0.765
Shannon (H′)	1.643	1.826	0	0.177	0	1.585
Evenness (e^H/S)	0.646	0.887	1	0.597	1	0.814
Brillouin	1.636	1.822	0	0.168	0	1.568
Menhinick	0.135	0.094	0.070	0.131	0.0985	0.205
Margalef	0.858	0.696	0	0.184	0	0.740
Equitability (J)	0.79	0.938		0.2555		0.885
Fisher alpha	0.978	0.790	0.137	0.301	0.154	0.870
Berger–Parker	0.425	0.259	1	0.957	1	0.355
Chao 1	8	7	1	2	1	6