Appraisal of arid land status: a holistic assessment pertains to bio-physical indicators and ecosystem values

Ecological Processes

Table 7 Results of Student t test for various parameters

Parameters	Events	Inter-pulse	Non-pulse
Bare patch	Pulse	3.42^b	4.61^b
Bare patch	Inter-pulse	–	1.91^a
Species richness	Pulse	6.43^b	12.87^b
Species richness	Inter-pulse	–	5.00^b
Shannon diversity index	Pulse	6.21^b	9.81^b
Shannon diversity index	Inter-pulse	–	6.01^b
Evenness	Pulse	0.45 ^NS	1.06^NS
Evenness	Inter-pulse	–	1.66 ^NS
Soil organic carbon	Pulse	3.99^b	2.83^b
Soil organic carbon	Inter-pulse	–	0.372 ^NS
Soil phosphorus	Pulse	3.56^b	7.26^b
Soil phosphorus	Inter-pulse	–	4.14^b
Soil nitrogen	Pulse	3.71^b	2.78^b
Soil nitrogen	Inter-pulse	–	0.89 ^NS
Soil pH	Pulse	7.56^b	9.24^b
Soil pH	Inter-pulse	–	2.01^a
Soil electric conductivity	Pulse	0.96 ^NS	2.47^b
Soil electric conductivity	Inter-pulse	–	4.09^b
Soil moisture	Pulse	6.09^b	7.99^b
Soil moisture	Inter-pulse	–	3.46^b
Relative coverage score	Pulse	4.20^b	4.49^b
Relative coverage score	Inter-pulse	–	0.75 ^NS
Revised SQI	Pulse	5.51^b	3.25^b
Revised SQI	Inter-pulse		0.121 ^NS
Herbaceous component score	Pulse	3.60^b	3.92^b
Herbaceous component score	Inter-pulse		0.75 ^NS
EMV	Pulse	12.62^b	14.39^b
EMV	Inter-pulse		0.23 ^NS
Land status	Pulse	16.50^b	10.54^b
Land status	Inter-pulse		0.56 ^NS