The results indicate that the different degrees
of disturbance affect the species diversity and species
composition. The Richness index increases from the
VH to VL area. Unlike the Shannon-Wiener’s index,
the highest Richness value is in the VH area and the
Lowest in L area (Table 2). The difference between
the Richness and Shannon-Wiener’s index is that
Shannon-Wiener’s index considers the number of
trees of each species in the area, while the Richness
index considers only the number of species in the
area. Moreover, the Evenness index of the M, L and
VL areas are lower than that for the VH and H areas.
It means that there are some dominant trees present in
each of the M, L and VL areas. This notion is clearly.