The Effect of Decreasing Temperature on Arthropod Diversity and Abundance in Horse Dung Decomposition Communities of Southeastern Massachusetts

Table 2

Calculated diversity and evenness values. Maximum Shannon Diversity was calculated using the formula: 𝐻^′(Max)=ln(𝑆), where 𝑆 is the maximum number of species observed.

	Number of individuals; (𝑁)	Number of species; (𝑆)	Shannon Diversity, 𝐻^′	Shannon evenness, 𝐸; (𝐻^′)	Maximum Shannon diversity	Species richness; (𝑑)
Site 1	2,176	70	3.78	0.88	4.24	8.97
Site 2	2,011	66	3.83	0.90	4.18	8.54
Site 3	3,028	76	3.88	0.92	4.33	9.35
Site 4	968	71	3.89	0.91	4.26	10.1
Site 5	2,116	72	3.82	0.89	4.27	9.27
Total	10,299	76	4.03	0.93	4.33	8.11