Table 8 Mean (±std) of woody wild edible species diversity for three land uses in midland agroecology (MLA) in northwestern Ethiopia

Richness

Walideba

2.67^a ± 0.56

3.08^a ± 0.57

2.33^a ± 0.38

Chalia Debire

3.08^a ± 0.19

4.33^a ± 0.47

1.67^a ± 0.19

Overall mean

2.87 ± 0.29

3.71 ± 0.38

2.00 ± 0.22

Simpson

Walideba

0.35^b ± 0.078

0.52^a ± 0.08

0.36^a ± 0.08

Chalia Debire

0.54^a ± 0.03

0.58^a ± 0.03

0.27^a ± 0.07

Overall mean

0.44 ± 0.05

0.55 ± 0.04

0.32 ± 0.06

Shannon

Walideba

0.64^a ± 0.15

0.92^a ± 0.17

0.61^a ± 0.15

Chalia Debire

0.91^a ± 0.06

1.11^a ± 0.09

0.40^a ± 0.11

Overall mean

0.78 ± 0.09

1.02 ± 0.09

0.51 ± 0.09

Evenness

Walideba

0.54^b ± 0.10

0.79^a ± 0.12

0.59^a ± 0.13

Chalia Debire

0.83^a ± 0.04

0.82^a ± 0.04

0.53^a ± 0.14

Overall mean

0.68 ± 0.06

0.80 ± 0.06

0.56 ± 0.09