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Table 2 Measures of biodiversity for macroinvertebrates found in the study site

From: The benefit of one cannot replace the other: seagrass and mangrove ecosystems at Santa Fe, Bantayan Island

Measures of macroinvertebrate biodiversity

With mangrove

Without mangrove

Species richness

9

7

Dominance (D)

0.290

0.184

Simpson’s index (Ds)

0.710

0.816

Shannon-Wiener index of diversity (H)

1.566

1.810

Evenness index

0.532

0.873

Jaccard coefficient (SJ)

0.143

  1. Shannon-Wiener index p = 0.2770; Simpson’s index p = 0.1399