By using Shanon-Wiener Diversity Index, how do we explain insect diversity based on the calculated value? Is it the higher the value, that means the arthropod community in the plot is diverse?
True diversity, or the effective number of types, refers to the number of equally abundant types needed for the average proportional abundance of the types to equal that observed in the dataset of interest. Best regards
For biological data, values of Shannon’s diversity index range generally from 1.5 (low species richness and evenness) to 3.5 (high species evenness and richness).