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Detailed Ecological Assessment Report 2008 – Keenjhar Lake<br />

changes that may be natural or may be manmade e.g. flooding of habitats.<br />

Migration and hibernation can also affect reptile and amphibian species.<br />

Table 45 – Species richness and diversity index for reptile and amphibian species<br />

recorded from Keenjhar Lake<br />

S.no<br />

Type of index<br />

Keti<br />

Bunder<br />

1 Richness<br />

(number of<br />

species)<br />

2<br />

Keenjhar<br />

Lake<br />

Chotiari<br />

Reservoir<br />

Pai<br />

Forest<br />

27 23 31 18 16<br />

Evenness 0.4526 0.6787 0.4563 0.6948<br />

Keti<br />

Shah<br />

0.537<br />

6<br />

3 Shannon Index 2.503 2.748 2.649 2.526 2.152<br />

4 Margalef Index 3.823 3.506 4.127 3.237 2.845<br />

Evenness value<br />

Figure 31 – Evenness of reptile and amphibian species across sites<br />

0.8<br />

0.7<br />

0.6<br />

0.5<br />

0.4<br />

0.3<br />

0.2<br />

0.1<br />

0<br />

0.45<br />

Keti<br />

Bunder<br />

0.68<br />

Keenjhar<br />

Lake<br />

0.46<br />

Chotiari<br />

Reservoir<br />

Site<br />

<strong>WWF</strong> <strong>Pakistan</strong> – Indus for All Programme Page 111 of 165<br />

0.69<br />

0.54<br />

Pai Forest Keti Shah<br />

Evenness<br />

Figure 32 – Shannon and Margalef index for reptile and amphibian species for all<br />

sites<br />

Diversity index<br />

4.5<br />

4<br />

3.5<br />

3<br />

2.5<br />

2<br />

1.5<br />

1<br />

0.5<br />

0<br />

2.50<br />

Keti Bunder<br />

3.82<br />

Keenjhar Lake<br />

3.51<br />

4.13<br />

2.75 2.65 2.53<br />

Chotiari Reservoir<br />

Site<br />

Pai Forest<br />

3.24<br />

2.15<br />

Keti Shah<br />

2.85<br />

Shannon Index<br />

Margalef Index

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