Advanced Ethnobotany

Diversity

General Objectives

Establish that "diversity" involves more than the number of species and that it includes abundances.

The 80/20 rule is related to this.

Species diversity is a useful measure if applied in the right context.

Strategy

Create a dataset of species numbers across a transect (physical or conceptual).
Calculate the species diversity.
Plot the species diversity as a function of the distance along the transect.

Background

TED Talk:

Data Sources

Analysis Techniques

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