Vegetation Structure and Tree Species Diversity inside and outside a Newly Established Zalon Taung National Park in Northwest Myanmar

Table 10

Spearman correlation coefficients of forest structure and species diversity of 34 sampling plots related with environmental variables.

Parameters	Elevations	Slopes	Distances to the village	Distances to road
Average dbh (cm)	0.2828113	0.2186402	0.2073338	0.2748663
Total basal area (m^2)	0.3124523	−0.1639419	0.4362108	−0.2385027
Maximum height (m)	0.04890349	−0.2026439	0.2332085	−0.3947429
Shannon diversity	0.4169595	0.036822	0.3191749	0.1792208
Simpson diversity	0.6030558	0.1446906	0.4664629	0.3262032
Pielou’s evenness	0.4282659	0.1880825	0.281589	0.4771581

The correlation is considered significant at (), (), and ().