Chapter 44, Problem 2CBQ

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The species diversity of each community.

The community with highest diversity.

The maximum diversity each community could have.

Introduction:

The measurement of diversity of the given ecological community that includes the relative abundance and the number of species, is termed as species diversity. To calculate species diversity, the diversity index must be calculated. The mostly used index is Shannon diversity index, H_s, as shown below:

$H_s=-{\displaystyle \sum p_i\ln p_i}$