A Preliminary Survey of Medium- and Large-Sized Mammals and Their Conservation Status in the Asimba Forest Priority Area, Semiarid Highlands of Northern Ethiopia

Table 3

Species diversity indices in dry and wet seasons during the survey period in the natural forest (NF), bushland (BL), and plantation forest (PL).

Variables	Dry			Wet			Overall
	NF	BL	PL	NF	BL	PL
Number of records	52	69	43	40	34	25	263
Number of species (S)	9	10	7	9	8	6	15
Hʹ	1.99	2.07	1.66	2.14	1.91	1.48	2.436
J	0.9	0.9	0.85	0.97	0.92	0.82	0.899
Simpson’s diversity index	0.85	0.94	0.81	0.88	0.86	0.71	0.889