species eveness

[Alexis Brown]

Hi all,

Is there a alpha diversity measure that gives species evenness?

Alexis Brown

[Colin Brislawn]

Hello Alexis,

You can get a list of all metrics by running

alpha_diversity.py -m

Some of these metrics and measures do describe evenness, like heip_e which is Heip's Evenness. See this documentation:

http://scikit-bio.org/docs/latest/generated/skbio.diversity.alpha.html 

Colin

[Alexis Brown]

Thank you Colin!