Refer to the Table

question 142

Multiple Choice

Refer to the table. A community contains four species of birds in the following numbers of individuals: 30, 10, 5, 5.The table gives most of the information required to determine the Shannon index of diversity.Complete the table by choosing the correct values: The proportion for species B is _______; the total value for p_i ln(p_i) is _______.

• A) 0.60;  0.23
• B) 0.10;  0.46
• C) 0.20;  0.78
• D) 0.20;  1.09
• E) 0.30;  1.09

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