3.3| Species diversity and evenness
The highest diversity of mammals was recorded from scrublands followed by natural forests in the area. But, only a single species was seen in the bar land habitat, as a result no species diversity here. Medium and large sized mammalian similarity was high between scrublands and natural forests (SI=0.62), followed by scrubland and bar land habitats (SI=0.25). But, there was no mammalian species similarity between natural forests and bar land (SI=0.00). On the other hand,the higher and lower evenness of the mammalian species was recorded in scrublands(E = 0.826) and natural forest (E = 0.636). The highest Simpson’s index (1-D) of mammalian species was recorded from the scrublands (0.803) and the natural forests habitat had a lower diversity (0.647).The overall species richness of Amoro forest was 12, and Shannon–Wiener Index values were low (H′ = 1.666) whereas the Simpson’s index of diversity showed the highest species diversity (0.761) in the study area (Table 3).
Table 3 Medium and large mammal richness and diversity indicesduring the survey period