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

Table 2

Results of single factor ANOVA for the Shannon diversity (), richness (), and evenness () of major macrofaunal phyla at four shores studied.

	values
Porifera	1.4851	3.4466	0.8312
Coelenterata	2.8945	0.6714	1.8127
Annelida	5.8276*	2.2063	8.8955*
Arthropoda	12.1567*	7.3309*	6.0997*
Mollusca	11.5069*	2.8561	8.2687*
Echinodermata	1.8437	2.4773	1.5767
Total	8.9924 *	1.9827	1.0613

Significant at level; tabulated value = 3.49.