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When I took ecology in college, to calculate diversity of an ecosystem, we used Shannon's formula from a mathmatical theory of communications. iirc we did it w
by tingletech 4y ago
When I took ecology in college, to calculate diversity of an ecosystem, we used Shannon's formula from a mathmatical theory of communications. iirc we did it with base e vs base 2 so the units for ecological diversity were in nits.