Biodiversity and Structural Analysis of Woody Plant Species of Home Gardens in Basona Worana District, North Shoa Zone of Central Ethiopia

Table 8

Multiple comparisons of means of woody species richness, abundance, Shannon and Simpson diversity indices, and evenness in the HGs of BWD.

(I) Agroecology	(J) Agroecology	Mean difference (I-J)	SE	value	95% CI
					LB	UB
Dependent variable: richness
Dega	Woinadega	−1.39	0.30	≤0.000	−2.09	−0.69
Dega	Kola	−2.67	0.36	≤0.000	−3.53	−1.82
Woinadega	Kola	−1.28	0.38	≤0.003	−2.19	−0.37
Dependent variable: abundance
Dega	Woinadega	12.15	7.38	0.230	−5.35	29.64
Dega	Kola	23.69	8.99	0.025	2.39	44.98
Woinadega	Kola	11.54	9.58	0.453	−11.17	34.25
Dependent variable: Shannon diversity index (H′)
Dega	Woinadega	−0.31	0.08	≤0.001	−0.50	−0.12
Dega	Kola	−0.65	0.10	≤0.000	−0.88	−0.41
Woinadega	Kola	−0.34	0.10	0.004	−0.59	−0.09
Dependent variable: Simpson’s diversity index (D)
Dega	Woinadega	−0.13	0.04	0.005	−0.22	−0.03
Dega	Kola	−0.25	0.05	≤0.000	−0.36	−0.13
Woinadega	Kola	−0.12	0.05	0.049	−0.25	−0.001
Dependent variable: evenness (H′/)
Dega	Woinadega	−0.09	0.05	0.223	−0.21	0.04
Dega	Kola	−0.16	0.06	0.029	−0.31	−0.01
Woinadega	Kola	−0.08	0.07	0.494	−0.24	0.08

Note. The mean difference is significant at value <0.001, the mean difference is significant at value <0.05. CI = confidence Interval, LB = lower bound, UB = upper bound.