Claim · model-written summary
The unlogged forest had a Shannon-Weiner diversity index of 3.16, versus 3.03 in the logged forest.
- Taxon
- tree speciese1
- Outcome
- Shannon-Weiner diversity indexe0
- Value
- 3.16e0
- Qualifier
- 3.03e0
- Comparator
- logged foreste0
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Verbatim
e0“Shannon-Weiner diversity index of 3.16 and 3.03 and evenness index of .83 and .81 were also obtained for the unlogged and logged forest, respectively”
e1“tree species diversity and yield”
Title
Victor A. J. Adekunle; Adewole O. Olagoke; Lawrence F. Ogundare Journal of Sustainable Forestry 2010. doi:10.1080/10549811.2010.489923
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation The two forest types contained 54 tropical hardwood species from 23 families.
- Observation The unlogged forest contained 46 species.
- Observation The logged forest contained 24 species.
- Observation The unlogged forest had an evenness index of .83, versus .81 in the logged forest.
- Observation All computed diversity variables were higher in the unlogged than logged forest.
- Observation Mansonia altissima A. Chev. was the most frequent species in unlogged forest at 80 stems/ha.
- Observation Caesalpinoidae and Sterculiaceae each had the largest species counts in unlogged forest, at six species.
- Observation Triplochiton scleroxylon K. Schum. had the highest frequency in logged forest, at 18 stems/ha.
- Observation Caesalpinoidae had the most species in logged forest, with four.
- Observation The authors concluded that logging affected tree species diversity and their environmental conservation roles.