Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat human and livestock ailments in Addi Arkay district, northwest Ethiopia

Table 8 Jaccard’s Similarity Index ethnobotanical comparison of human and veterinary plants between the study districts and other study areas

Previous studies	J-index for human					J-index for ethnoveterinary					References
Previous studies	MPH	a	b	c	JI%	VP	a	b	c	JSI%	References
Ada’a	112	87	87	25	16.78	46	40	21	6	10.91	[50]
Adwa	115	64	61	51	68.92	11	9	25	2	6.25	[54]
Aleta-Chuko	47	36	101	11	8.73	16	15	26	1	2.50	[60]
Artuma Fursi	78	44	78	34	38.64	96	95	26	1	0.83	[59]
Basona Werana	70	46	88	24	21.82	13	10	24	3	9.68	[57]
Damot Woyde	51	33	94	18	16.51	22	19	24	3	7.50	[96]
Diguna Fango	45	26	93	19	19.00	9	8	26	1	3.03	[53]
Enemay	86	66	92	20	14.49	40	34	21	6	12.24	[6]
Ganta Afeshum	153	101	60	52	47.71	20	19	26	1	2.27	[55]
Hawassa Zuria	97	74	89	23	16.43	52	44	19	8	14.55	[61]
Heban-Arsi	77	56	91	21	16.67	43	34	18	9	20.93	[56]
Hulet Eju Enese	72	32	72	40	62.50	27	23	23	4	9.52	[52]
Kilte Awulaelo	106	65	71	41	43.16	49	41	19	8	15.38	[45]
Mana Angetu	203	171	80	32	14.61	45	38	20	7	13.73	[69]
Raya Kobo	75	60	97	15	10.56	16	13	24	3	8.82	[58]
Sedie Muja	79	40	73	39	52.70	29	25	23	4	9.09	[56]
Seharti Samre	87	56	81	31	29.25	27	19	19	8	26.67	[47]
South Omo	59	48	101	11	7.97	43	39	23	4	6.90	[40]
Toaba	132	114	94	18	9.47	52	40	15	12	27.91	[97]
Tulo	93	57	76	36	37.11	26	19	20	7	21.88	[51]
Wonago	58	42	96	16	13.11	28	26	25	2	4.08	[98]
Yalo	63	53	102	10	6.90	43	41	25	2	3.13	[48]

Key: TMP = total medicinal plant used for human and livestock in the district, MPH = medicinal plant for human, VP = veterinary plant, a = no species only in current study, b = no species only in previous study, c = no of common species in current study and previous studies, and JI (%) = Jaccard’s Similarity Index in percent

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