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Diversity Indices: Shannon's H and E

Author(s): Lou Gross1, Monica Beals1, Susan Harrell1

University of Tennessee Knoxville

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This module introduces Shannon's diversity index in the context of understanding how to mathematically measure the species diversity in a community. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

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Version 1.0 - published on 15 Feb 2019 doi:10.25334/Q4844Q - cite this

Keywords

  1. ecology
  2. diversity
  3. Functions
  4. OpenStax
  5. diversity index

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This activity maps to the OpenStax biology textbook, 45.6 Community Ecology

Student Introduction: A diversity index is a mathematical measure of species diversity in a community. Diversity indices provide more information about community composition than simply species richness (i.e., the number of species present); they also take the relative abundances of different species into account.

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