Calculates ten diversity measures from spreadsheet data.
|Diversity calculator looks through each sample (row) of a spreadsheet
and counts the species (columns) with non-zero entries. Ten measures of
diversity are calculated: raw species present, ratio of species present
to total, Simpson index and normalized Shannon-Wiener index, original Shannon-Wiener
index, Margalef index, McIntosh index, Beerbower and Jordan index, Yule
index, Abundance/Richness ratio, plus total abundance of all columns.
For each sample (spreadsheet row) the result is:
Instructions: Open a tab-delimited TEXT spreadsheet, samples (rows) by species (columns). Select a name and folder for the diversity results. The results are saved as an Excel TEXT file.
NOTE: The first column in the spreadsheet must contain sample labels (if not, insert a blank column before continuing). The first row must contain column labels (if not, insert a blank row before continuing).
System requirements: Mac OS X (application for PPC or Intel Mac).
Version 4.0 for Mac Classic is still available.
Price: $100 USPierre A. Zippi
How to order
Go to: PAZ Software Homepage