Talk:How to Measure Biodiversity for a College Field Project
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USE BULLETS AND/OR NUMBERING!
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that's all! looks good, very detailed. - annie
Also...
- Do not use first person, e.g., "I find it best".
- Shannon-Weiner should be Shannon Index.
- There are two free software programs for analyzing biodiversity: PAST and EstimateS, http://www.nhm.uio.no/norlex/past/download.html and http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/estimates, respectively. PAST is PC only. EstimateS is mac and PC.
- "e.g. - Gulf of Mexico" is too big an area for a college field project. Maybe something like, "your college campus or the nearby state park or estuary".
- I suggest switching the order of Simpson and Shannon, Simpson's Index is better for smaller sample size.
- You might mention something about Recognizable Taxonomic Units (RTU) vs. Species, “Morphospecies” or “Parataxonomic Unit” (PU)).
--Erik