Community Structure and Distribution Pattern of Intertidal Invertebrate Macrofauna at Some Anthropogenically Influenced Coasts of Kathiawar Peninsula (India)

Table 1

Results of the two-way ANOVA (without replication) of the mean seasonal Shannon-Wiener diversity (), richness (), and evenness () values of the six invertebrate phyla sampled at the four stations.

Animal group	Source of variation	values
		Porifera	Station	18.32*	3.09	4.55*
Season	7.91*		5.25*	1.57
Coelenterata	Station	7.65*	2.52	2.30
	Season	7.71*	0.93	2.40
Annelida	Station	1.17	2.11	2.89
	Season	6.08*	2.82	13.11*
Arthropoda	Station	0.72	2.95	3.65
	Season	11.30*	10.90*	10.14*
Mollusca	Station	3.49	1.36	4.17*
	Season	18.67*	3.12	14.83*
Echinodermata	Station	0.75	2.09	0.17
	Season	1.73	3.15	1.25

Significant at level; tabulated value at df .