Aboveground carbon stock is related to land cover and woody species diversity in tropical ecosystems of Eastern Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 4 Pearson correlations (r) and generalized linear mixed models to test the relationships between carbon storage with species richness, functional diversity, species dominance, and functional dominance in different land cover types in Eastern Ethiopia

Biodiversity	Carbon storage in different land cover type
Biodiversity	Riparian forest	Woodland	Bushland	Farmland
Species richness	− 0.15*	0.23	0.52	0.54
Shannon index	0.32	0.15	0.39*	0.52*
Functional diversity	0.81***	0.58**	0.45*	0.34
Species evenness	0.51	0.04	0.13	0.44
Shannon index * functional diversity	0.34	0.28	0.33	0.14