Problems in measuring bacterial diversity and a possible solution.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
M G Watve, R M Gangal

Abstract

The indices of species diversity used by plant and animal ecologists are not appropriate for bacterial diversity because of the inherent difficulty of defining a bacterial species. Arbitrary cutoff points to define a species or biotype lead to severe statistical problems. We suggest in this paper that a mean dissimilarity-based index without any attempt to define a species provides a statistically sound measurement of bacterial diversity.

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