Effects of Environmental and Disturbance Factors on Plant Community Distribution in Tropical Moist Afromontane Forests, South-West Ethiopia

Table 9

Pearson correlation coefficients between diversity indices and environmental and disturbance factors in MFBR.

Environmental disturbance site factors	Diversity indices
	SR	H′	J
Hca			−0.030^ns
HI			−0.040^ns
Ele
Slope
Soil pH
Silt

Note. Hca = herbaceous cover, HI = harvesting index, Ele = elevation, SR = species richness, H′ = species diversity index, and J = species evenness. Positive signs indicate a positive correlation, and negative signs indicate inverse relations. , , , and ns = no significance.