Some plants of arid habitats close their stomata in the day and open them at night, when it is cooler.

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Berger-Parker complement index is that it is very easy to compute.  Values of DBPC vary from 0 to 1.

DBPC=1 - DBP

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Simpson’s diversity index DS and species diversity are negatively related.

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Gini Simpson index of diversity (DGS) = 1 − DS.

DGS and species diversity are positive related

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The Shannon index Direct related with Diversity and increases with addition of species and even distribution of species.

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The Brillouin index

Brillouin index discriminates between these two communities with same richness and evenness  and the Shannon index does not.

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