Table 2. Taxa diversity of macroinvertebrates and fish in Burana Natural Wetland (BNW) and Totosie Semi-Artificial Wetland (TSAW)

Diversity indices Macroinvertebrates Fish
BNW TSAW BNW TSAW
n = 51 n = 7 n = 3 n = 2
Richness (S) 22 14 3 3
Shannon-diversity (H’) 1.07 1.22 0.86 1.00
Evenness (J) 0.52 0.65 0.91 0.91
Mean ± SE Mean ± SE U-test Mean ± SE Mean ± SE U-test
Richness (S) 6.31 ± 0.28 5.86 ± 0.88 0.640 2.67 + 0.58 3 ± 0 0.200
Shannon-diversity (H’) 1.07 ± 0.06 1.22 ± 0.18 0.360 0.86 ± 0.17 1.0 ± 0.02 0.200
Evenness (J) 0.52 ± 0.03 0.65 ± 0.07 0.100 0.91 ± 0.07 0.91 ± 0.02 0.200
Similarity (SSC) 0.4127 = 41.27% 100%
n, no. of sampling sites.