4.6 Index of Diversity

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    • What is species richness?
      The number of species in a community.
    • Fill in the blank:
      A) 3
      B) 5
    • What is a disadvantage of using species richness?
      It gives us no indication as to how many individuals there are within each species.
    • Index of diversity is the relationship between the number of species and the number of individuals of each species in a community.
    • Why is the index of diversity useful?
      It accounts for there being very many or very few of some species, unlike species richness.
    • What is the equation for index of diversity?
      Fill in the blank:
      A) N
      B) N-1
      C) n
      D) n-1
    • What does N reprosent in the equation for index of diversity?
      It reprosents the total number of organisms of all species.
    • What does n reprosent in the equation for index of diversity?
      It reprosents the total number of organisms of each species