Table 6 Means (±std) of woody underutilized edible plant diversity for the three land uses in the study area, northwestern Ethiopia

Richness

MLA

2.87^a ± 0.29

3.71^a ± 0.38

2.00^a ± 0.22

LLA

3.42^a ± 0.22

3.17^a ± 0.35

1.87^a ± 0.33

Over all mean

3.15 ± 0.18

3.44 ± 0.26

1.93 ± 0.19

Simpson

MLA

0.44^a ± 0.05

0.55^a ± 0.04

0.31^a ± 0.05

LLA

0.55^a ± 0.03

0.46^a ± 0.06

0.27^a ± 0.06

Overall mean

0.49 ± 0.03

0.51 ± 0.03

0.29 ± 0.04

Shannon

MLA

0.77^a ± 0.09

1.02^a ± 0.09

0.51^a ± 0.09

LLA

0.97^a ± 0.07

0.85^a ± 0.12

0.46^a ± 0.11

Overall mean

0.87 ± 0.06

0.93 ± 0.08

0.48 ± 0.07

Evenness

MLA

0.68^b ± 0.06

0.80^a ± 0.06

0.50^a ± 0.06

LLA

0.82^a ± 0.03

0.66^a ± 0.08

0.43^a ± 0.09

Overall mean

0.75 ± 0.03

0.73 ± 0.05

0.56 ± 0.09