Impacts of Industrialization on Plant Species Composition, Diversity, and Tree Population Structure in Tropical Moist Deciduous Forest in Bangladesh

Table 7

Taxonomic diversity indices of the recorded species in the three sites of Bhawal sal forest.

Biodiversity indices	Plant species	Site-1	Site-2	Site-3	F value	value
Shannon–Wiener index	Mature trees	1.72^c	2.03^b	2.23^a	88.91	0.0000
	Saplings	1.32^c	1.67^b	2.10^a	49.68	0.0000
	Shrubs	0.23^c	1.29^a	0.91^b	18.45	0.0001
	Seedlings	1.09^c	1.44^b	1.92^a	52.78	0.0000
	Climbers	—	0.69^b	0.92^a	15.47	0.0043
Simpson’s index	Mature trees	0.82^b	0.78^c	0.89^a	269.89	0.0000
	Saplings	0.38^b	0.80^a	0.83^a	11.94	0.0007
	Shrubs	0.32^b	0.29^b	0.58^a	18.78	0.0001
	Seedlings	0.28^c	0.69^b	0.77^a	56.06	0.0000
	Climbers	—	0.57^a	0.50^b	14.70	0.0049
Margalef’s index	Mature trees	1.38^c	2.51^b	2.79^a	94.95	0.0000
	Saplings	1.16^c	1.44^b	2.11^a	52.35	0.0000
	Shrubs	0.83^b	0.82^b	1.37^a	24.05	0.0000
	Seedlings	0.79^c	1.54^b	1.83^a	64.22	0.0000
	Climbers	—	0.96	1.41	17.29	0.0032
Pielou’s evenness index	Mature trees	0.39^c	0.41^b	0.49^a	216.92	0.0000
	Saplings	0.74^a	0.40^c	0.44^b	51.66	0.0000
	Shrubs	0.19^b	0.26^a	0.15^c	24.97	0.0000
	Seedlings	0.68^a	0.25^c	0.29^b	71.64	0.0000
	Climbers	—	0.33	0.32^Ns	0.013	0.185
Menhinick index	Mature trees	0.68^c	0.98^b	1.02^a	37.11	0.0000
	Saplings	0.78^b	0.75^c	1.07^a	51.66	0.0000
	Shrubs	0.60^a	0.34^c	0.44^b	19.78	0.0001
	Seedlings	0.45^b	0.48^a	0.45^b	16.65	0.0000
	Climbers	—	0.71^b	0.97^a	15.47	0.0043