Name: Lizzele Nomiseb

Student No. 221230297 Practical 1: Species Diversity assessments

1. Species richness and species composition

2. A) Community 1 – There are 4 species composition
G. leucogaster, E. intufi, C. hirta, A. chrysophilus
Community 2 – There are 3 Species composition
G. leucogaster, E. intufi, C. hirta
B) Community 1 – 57 species richness
Community 2 – 21 species richness
C) Community 1
Species No of species Pi=sample/su In(pi) Pi*In(pi)
G. leucogaster 14 0.25 -0.39 -0.1
E. intufi 12 0.21 -1.56 -0.33
C.hirta 21 0.37 -0.99 -0.37
A.chrysophilus 10 0.18 -1.71 -0.31
SUM=57 SUM= -1.11
H= 1.11
Community 2
Species No of species Pi=sample/su In(pi) Pi*In(pi)
G. leucogaster 4 0.19 -1.66 -0.32
E. intufi 12 0.57 -0.56 -0.32
C.hirta 5 0.24 -1.43 -0.34
SUM= 21 SUM= -0.98
H= 0.98
D) Community 1
Species No of individuals (n-1) n (n-1)
G. leucogaster 14 13 182
E. intufi 12 11 132
C.hirta 21 20 420
A. chrysophilus 10 9 90
Total 57 824
 Calculation
SDI= 1- ∑ni(ni−1) *N(N-1)
= 1- 824*57(56)
= 1- 824*3192
= 1- 0.26
SDI = 0.74

Community 2
Species No of individual (n-1) n (n-1)
G. leucogaster 4 3 12
E. intufi 12 11 132
C.hirta 5 4 20
Total 21 164

Calculation
SDI = 1- ∑ni(ni−1) *N(N-1)
= 1- 164* 21(20)
= 1- 164 * 420
= 1- 0.39
SDI = 0.61
Bar graph showing the results of SDI community 1 and 2

3. Community 1, There different kind of plant species.