Category Components Shapiro-Wilk Test Shapiro-Wilk Test Levene’s Test Levene’s Test t-Test t-Test
Statistic P-valve F-value P-valve t-value P-valve
Vegetation Total cover (%) 0.937 0.225 3.126 0.10 2.342 0.039
Bare soil (%) 0.937 0.256 3.126 0.10 -2.919 0.013
Litter (%) 0.910 0.085 2.398 0.141 4.16 0.001
Diversity Richness 0.923 0.092 0.282 0.603 -0.067 0.947
Evenness 0.950 0.424 1.152 0.299 -4.307 0.001
Shannon 0.963 0.658 0.008 0.929 -4.775 > 0.001
Simpson 0.957 0.536 1.033 0.324 -4.913 > 0.001