Review on Selected Church Forests of Ethiopia: Implication for Plant Species Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation

Table 1

Summarized studies on the role of Church forests in the conservation of plant species in Ethiopia.

No	Church site geographic location	Number of sites studied	Forest area (ha)	Sample forest area taken (ha)	Diversity indices		Total no. of species	No. of families	Source
					H^″	E
1	Yemrehane Kirstos Church Forest, North Ethiopia	1	200	1.36	2.88	0.79	39	29	[32]
2	Gatira George’s Forest, Northeastern Ethiopia	1	2.4	0.36	2.78	0.88	34	34	[33]
3	Mahbere Sellassie Monastery Forest, Northwestern Ethiopia	1	12.7	5.4	3.27	0.855	119	42	[34]
4	Aba Asrat Monastery Forest, Northwestern Ethiopia	1		0.62	3.608	0.932	120	53	[35]
5	Tara Gedam Monastery Forest, Northwestern Ethiopia	1	625	0.16	3.26	0.87	120	57	[36]
6	Sesa Mariam Monastery Forest, Northwestern Ethiopia	1		2.04	3.81	0.85	113	54	[37]
7	Assela Teklehymanot Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	25	0.44	1.76	0.72	34	27	[38]
8	Etisa Teklehymanot Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	23	0.28	1.19	0.81	17	15
9	Saramba Kidanemhret Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	22	0.24	1.63	0.71	27	20
10	Abbo Sacred Forest, Southern Ethiopia	1	92.33	2.4	2.99	0.75	63	56	[38]
11	Debre Libanos Monastery Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	85	1.8	3.35	0.45	119	39	[39]
12	Mantogera Estifanos Church Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	5	0.6	2.15		38	21	[40]
13	Wolayta Debere Menekerat Abune Tekele Haymanot Church Forest, Southern Ethiopia	1	25	0.6	0.52		16	10
14	Bole Bulbula Tekle Haymanot Church Forest, Central Ethiopia	1	21	1.2	1.25		32	11
15	Emba Kidist Arsema Church Forest, Northern Ethiopia	1	41	0.68	1.8		18	7
16	Wonjeta St Micheal Church Forest, Southern Ethiopia	1	5	2	2.8	0.68	65	33	[4]
17	Rama Kidanemhret Monastery Forest, North, Ethiopia	1	72	2.8	2.34	0.904	69	43	[40]
18	St. Geberial and Medhaniakea Church Forest, Southern Ethiopia	2		0.6	1.73	0.81	58	28	[41]
19	Zijje Maryam Church Frest, Northern Ethiopia		5.28	0.2	3.29	0.85	48	35	[42]
20	Church Forests, Northern Ethiopia	28	17.9	0.289	—	—	168		[27]
21	Church Forests North Shewa Zone, Northern Ethiopia	6	1.6–100	—	—	—	17–60		[2]

Note. H″: Shannon-Wiener diversity index; E: evenness index.