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 6

Species richness, diversity, and evenness of soil seed bank across soil layers.

Soil layers (cm)	R	H′	E
0–3	5.61 ± 0.32b	2.46 ± 0.1a	0.72 ± 0.03a
3–6	4.69 ± 0.36ab	2.43 ± 0.08b	0.73 ± 0.02a
6–9	4.44 ± 0.38a	2.41 ± 0.09b	0.77 ± 0.02b

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