Assessment of Sustainability in Community Forests: A Study from Dolakha District, Nepal

Table 6

Values of biodiversity indexes in CFs.

Index	Descriptive statistics	Simpani CF	Bolde Setidevi CF	Kalobhir CF
Shannon–Wiener diversity index	Mean ± SE	0.75 ± 0.05	0.92 ± 0.087	0.86 ± 0.036
	Standard deviation	0.17	0.38	0.25
	Minimum	0.56	0.35	0.35
	Maximum	1.12	1.61	1.35
Evenness diversity index	Mean ± SE	0.28 ± 0.03	0.46 ± 0.03	0.32 ± 0.01
	Sd	0.09	0.05	0.08
	Minimum	0.05	0.17	0.17
	Maximum	0.34	0.36	0.68
Species richness		7	12	11