" Parking Lot Data"

     In the Parking Lot Ecology Lab, my team and I decided to differentiate each species by the automobile brand. As a result, Community B was the most diverse because it has a higher H (Shannon-Weiner Index) with 2.51, R (richness) with 19, and E (evenness) with 0.89 when compared to Community A that has a H with 2.14, R with 16, and E with 0.77.
    If both "communities" were similar in make-up, Community A has most likely experienced some sort of human disturbance. Community A has a lower biodiversity because of the restriction of cars that can be parked in the school parking lot near the building and the back lot, and by the continuous use by the same people with the same cars, whereas in Community B has more diversity because of the additional freedom to park on the White Street by anyone; creating different variety of cars.
    The species that dominated in both "communities" was Toyota; in Community A it had 23 Toyotas and in Community B it had 18 Toyotas. Toyota is a popular brand. Advertisement makes Toyota seem better then other cars with having specific features that are designed to make it more desirable.
     There were opportunities for errors in my calculations. There was a lot to calculate; adding up the numbers to get the Shannon-Weiner Index was a challenge because inputing the decimals in the calculator made me miss some numbers; however, I did caught myself making those mistakes, so I redid the calculation over again to get the right numbers.