Using the two main factors taken into account when measuring diversity (richness and evenness) I concluded that I think that the Indian Embassy field is a biologically diverse field. This is so because there is a large number and a variety of plants (species) in the area. Richness is the number of species per sample and evenness is a measure of the relative large quantity of the different species. When I compared the plants in the entire class, we had many similar plants with a variety even though the plants were taken from different locations of the field. The field is rich and has evenness, the plants are approximately evenly distributed among the field based on all the samples we had.
When I compared the data collected by all the Biology classes we found that there were 56 types of species with 193 units of the different types. Using the Simpson's index equation,
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= 3524 = 0.095 (0.095 is close to 0 rather than 1, because the lower the value,
37056 the higher the diversity therefore, the field is diverse.)
Also for further proof, we can use the Simpson's Index of diversity equation:
= 1 - 0.095 = 0.905 (0.905 is closer to 1 rather than 0, this shows that the field is diverse because the greater the value, the higher the rate of diversity.)
Also for further proof, we can use the Simpson's Index of diversity equation:
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Thanks for the post, are there ways of improving the data that we collected?
ReplyDeleteYes, I could improve the post by adding more data we collected. I edited the post by adding the Simpson's Index of diversity equation.
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