I am postgraduate student who is very stuck with some statistical analysis.
I am trying to calculate the biodiversity of continuous plankton recorder (CPR) data of phytoplankton which has been resolved to genus level. I was originally wanting to calculate average taxonomic distance but have had some technical difficulties there so have resulted to trying to find a different biodiversity index.
I know all the indexes have pros/cons based on research question, but am struggling to find anything to help inform my decision. So far am leaning towards Hill numbers?
If anyone had any advice about these biodiversity indexes, or could point me in the direction of some useful references, that would be very helpful!!
For plankton biodiversity analysis, Shannon -Weaver index is the most popular index. You can measure it by using software like: R Srtatistix, Past etc.
Like you, I already identified plankton at genus level also find difficulties to do some statistical analysis. You can get technical help about using software from seniors or supervisor.
Hill numbers or Shannon Weiner. Anything like that, it doesn't matter, there are no rules in ecology
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