Table 8.

Comparison of species found in the study area with those in other study areas

Study areas	Species no. (a or b)	Common species (c)	Jaccard’s coefficient (sj)	% similarity	References
Hawassa Zuria district	105	–	–	–	Study area
Amaro district	56	22	0.12	12.0	[12]
Wondo Genet district	85	35	0.15	15.5	[27]
Wonago district	155	26	0.09	9.09	[3]
Mana Angetu	230	33	0.08	8.96	[49]

a is the number of species which is found in habitat A, b is the number of species found only in habitat B, and c is the number of common species found in habitats A and B