Claim · model-written summary
Sheko forest had low floristic similarity to other Ethiopian forests.
- Taxon
- foreste0
- Outcome
- floristic similaritye0
- Direction
- lowe0
- Comparator
- other related forests in Ethiopiae0
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Verbatim
e0“A floristic comparison of Sheko forest with other related forests in Ethiopia revealed low floristic similarity.”
Title
Floristic Diversity and Composition of Sheko Forest, Southwest Ethiopia
F Senbeta; T Woldemariam; S Demissew; et al. Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences 2009. doi:10.4314/ejbs.v6i1.39038
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation The survey recorded 374 plant species, 256 genera and 91 families.
- Observation Mean species richness was 45 species per 400 m2.
- Observation The maximum species count per plot was 74.
- Observation Shannon diversity index was 2.83.
- Observation Forest evenness was 0.54.
- Observation Orchidaceae had the most species, 28.
- Observation Rubiaceae had 26 species.
- Observation Euphorbiaceae had 19 species.
- Observation Moraceae had 18 species.
- Observation Acanthaceae had 16 species.
- Observation The sampled plots contained 24,321 woody plant individuals, equivalent to 16,433 per ha.
- Observation Twenty species comprised over 80% of forest absolute density.
- Observation Three of those species had importance values above 20%.
- Observation Six timber tree species showed inverted J-shaped, J-shaped and bell-shaped diameter distributions.
- Observation Cluster analysis recognized three plant communities.
- Observation The authors interpret high diversity as indicating botanical uniqueness and conservation value.