Spatial pattern of tree diversity and evenness across forest types in Majella National Park, Italy

Forest Ecosystems

Table 6 Statistics of overlapping TM evenness map with forest types map with forest type map along with average values of Shannon Evenness Index (SEI) in each forest types

Forest types		Area of each diversity class (%) that falls under a forest type					SEI^* (avg)
Forest types	Total area (ha)	Very high	High	Medium	Low	Very low	SEI^* (avg)
Beech	1842	23	31	3	7	37	0.40^VL
Black/Aleppo Pine	1507	22	20	36	16	7	0.67^M
Evergreen Oak	42	17	11	12	12	48	0.34^VL
Hop-hornbeam	631	24	35	16	16	9	0.82^H
Deciduous Oak	1820	32	12	25	15	18	0.76^H

Major evenness class in each forest type has been boldfaced
SEI^* = Average value of Shannon Evenness Index in each forest types; Diversity classes: M = Medium; L = Low; H = High; VH = Very high