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#Question id: 12345


Shannon's index of diversity is calculated using the equation below, where pi is the proportion of the ithShannon's index of diversity is calculated using the equation below, where pi is the proportion of the ith species and ln is natural logarithm. For a community with a given number of species, which of the following statements is true? species and ln is natural logarithm. For a community with a given number of species, which of the following statements is true?


#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Shannon's index will be highest if all species have equal abundance
  2. Shannon's index will be highest if one species is highly dominant 
  3. Shannon's index will be highest if there are many rare species 
  4. The relative abundance is irrelevant to Shannon's