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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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