Study of the Soil Seed Bank Composition in Arjo-Diga Humid Afromontane Forest under Different Land Use Types and Its Implications for the Restoration of Degraded Lands in Western Ethiopia

Table 1

Species richness, diversity, and evenness of soil seed bank across four land use types.

Land use types	R	H′	E
Forestland	4.81 ± 0.31a	2.52 ± 0.14a	0.71 ± 0.04a
Shrubland	6 ± 0.4b	2.40 ± 0.9b	0.73 ± 0.02a
Grassland	5 ± 0.39b	2.42 ± 0.09b	0.78 ± 0.03a
Bare land	3.21 ± 0.34c	2.39 ± 0.08b	0.74 ± 0.02a

H′ = Shannon‒Wiener diversity index, R = species richness, and E′ = Shannon evenness; the same letters indicate nonsignificant differences at .