To reach this goal indicators of diversity are useful tools to evaluate the effects management practices have on floristic diversity in agro-ecosystems.
Nevertheless, such indicators of diversity, equality, and good practice are not regarded as impact indicators by HEFCE and thus were not included in the 2010 impact pilot.
The viruses selected for sequencing were chosen from a collection of more than 400 isolates with the intention of evaluating various phenotypic characteristics and geographic origins as indicators of diversity; an equal number of isolates infecting each of the three hosts were selected.
"Underrepresented minorities," usually Hispanic and black students, have been the major indicator of diversity.
Large width of gamete distributions may be an indicator of large diversity, but it is better to use the Shannon information as a more robust indicator of diversity.
First, the plasticity of prokaryotic genomes means that the use of 16S as an indicator of diversity often masks many of the differentiating traits between closely related organisms (Dobrindt & Hacker, 2001; Medini et al., 2005).
However, it should be noted that the Shannon's diversity index is rejected by some authors as an indicator of diversity, as it is sensitive to small fractions and has no direct meaning [ 22].
All the indicators of genetic diversity (number of segregating sites, number of haplotypes, and nucleotide diversity: π) were higher in average (roughly doubled pi = 0.0020 vs 0.0041; [additional file 5]) in the whole sample of domesticated genotypes in comparison to the sample of wild genotypes in the flb region.
However, most of the indicators of crop diversity used in previous studies were based on ex situ genetic diversity, or on official lists of varieties or breeding programs, without taking acreage of the varieties actually grown in farmers' fields into account.
The percentage of nucleotide mutations (total number of mutations divided by total number of bases sequenced), amino acid mutations (total number of amino acid changes divided by total number of amino acids sequenced), and the sequence diversity (percent of clones with at least one difference from consensus) were used as indicators of genetic diversity.
Two indicators of dietary diversity, a modified Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS), and the Food Consumption Score (FCS), were calculated along with three indicators of farm production diversity including the Simpson's Index, a metric accounting for both species richness and evenness.
