Table 4.

Comparison between present and previous studies at neighboring, regional, and global level as performed by Jaccard Index (JI).

S. N.	Previous study area	References	Total documented species	Total documented species in present study	Similarl use of plant	Dissimilar use of plant	Plants common to both areas	Jaccard Index (JI)
1	Arrabida Natural Park, Portugal	Novais et al., 2004	156	159	1	0	1	0.32
2	Pallars, Spain	Agelet and Vallès, 2003	437	159	1	1	2	0.33
3	Northwest Region, Colombia	Otero et al., 2000	101	159	0	1	1	0.39
4	USA	Slish et al., 1999	31	159	1	0	1	0.53
5	Middle Navarra, Spain	Cavero et al., 2011	198	159	2	0	2	0.60
6	Mainarde mountains, Italy	Fortini et al., 2016	106	159	2	0	2	0.77
7	Eastern Mallorca, Spain	Carrió and Vallès, 2012	121	159	1	2	3	0.81
8	South Kerman, Iran	Sadat-Hosseini et al., 2017	115	159	1	2	3	1.12
9	USA	Aston Philander, 2011	205	159	2	2	4	1.14
10	Balochistan, Pakistan	Bibi et al., 2014	102	159	1	3	4	1.54
11	Qaysari Market, Kurdish, Iraq	Mati and De Boer, 2011	82	159	1	3	4	1.66
12	Mato Grosso, Brazil	Ribeiro et al., 2017	309	159	6	2	8	1.80
13	Xalpatlahuac, Mexico	Juárez-Vázquez et al., 2013	67	159	2	2	4	1.87
14	Northern Kordofan region, Sudan	Suleiman, 2015	44	159	3	1	4	2.09
15	Odisha, India	Nagendrappa et al., 2013	16	159	2	2	4	2.45
16	Ethiopia	Teklehaymanot and Giday, 2010	57	159	2	3	5	2.49
17	Hatay Province, Turkey	Güzel et al., 2015	202	159	4	5	9	2.69
18	Uttarakhand, India	Singh et al., 2014	89	159	6	1	7	3.08
19	Yunnan, China	Ghorbani et al., 2011	199	159	7	5	13	4.08
20	Parbat district of Nepal	Malla et al., 2015	132	159	8	3	11	4.26
21	Assam, India	Saikia et al., 2006	85	159	6	10	16	8.16
22	Rangamati, Bangladesh	Uddin et al., 2014	50	159	5	14	19	12.5
23	Uttara Kannada district, India	Bhandary et al., 1995	69	159	11	10	21	12.73
24	Hazarikhil, Chittagong, Bangladesh	Faruque and Uddin, 2011	43	159	6	13	19	13.10
25	Uttar Pradesh, India	Singh et al., 2002	125	159	19	8	27	13.30
26	Atwari, Panchagarh, Bangladesh	Rahman et al., 2016	97	159	8	22	30	18.07
27	Bandarban, Bangladesh	Faruque and Uddin, 2014	66	159	9	18	27	18.75
28	Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh	Uddin et al., 2013	82	159	18	15	33	23.24
29	Alpine & sub-alpine region, Pakistan	Kayani et al., 2015	125	159	1	0	1	0.36
30	Madhupur forest area, Bangladesh	Islam et al., 2014	78	159	15	12	27	17.31