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Launch ↗ Simpson Diversity Index Calculator
A community with many species spread evenly is more diverse than one that a single species dominates, and Simpson's Diversity Index captures both richness and evenness in one number. Here you enter species counts from a habitat, calculate the index, and compare how diverse different communities really are.
Launch InteractiveTopics covered
- Biodiversity measurement
- Simpson's Diversity Index
- Species richness and evenness
- Community structure
- Ecological field data
- Conservation biology
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