30- Measures of Diversity
Biodiversity is often mentioned as one concept in popular culture. However, it can be split into different components depending on who you ask. Today, we're going to explore two different ways of chopping biodiversity up.
Sources for this episode: 1) Cain, M. L., Bowman, W. D. and Hacker, S. D. (2011), Ecology (2nd edition). Sunderland: Sinauer Associates Ltd. 2) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Gamma diversity (online) [Accessed 06/03/2021].
There are ways of working out biodiversity values, which we won't discuss in this episode. For a formula for the Shannon-Weiner index of biodiversity (which I'm going to try and discuss in a future episode), see: Thain, M. and Hickman, M. (2014), Dictionary of Biology (Eleventh Edition). London: Penguin Books Ltd. For Simpson's biodiversity index, see: Fullick A., Locke, J. and Bircher, P. (2015), A Level Biology for OCR A. Oxford: Oxford University Press.