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13.Biodiversity and Conservation
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Diversity index commonly used in ecological studies is

A

$y$-index diversity

B

Shannon index

C

$\alpha$ - index diversity

D

$\beta$ - index diversity

Solution

Species diversity is a product of both species richness and evenness or equitability, i.e, species richness weighed by species evenness. Odumet, al $(1960)$ calculated species diversity $(d)$ as the number of species in relation to the square root of the total number of individuals. In ecological studies, diversity index commonly used is Shannon index

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