Paradox of inverse relationship between species richness and abundance in the population of Bihar hairy caterpillar, Spilosoma spp.of Saharsa, Bihar, India

Manisha Kumari*
Department of Zoology, B.N.Mandal University, Madhepura, Bihar, India.
Received : 2^nd June, 2018 ; Revised :30^th August,2018

Abstract: In the natural distribution of species population, there exist a paradoxial relationship between richness and abundance. The paradox has been investigated in terms of inverse relationship between the species richness & abundance in the population of Bihar hairy caterpillar, Spilosoma spp. surveyed & sampled from urban area of Saharsa district, Bihar. This peculiarity amounts to the logarithmic relationship in the statistical computation of species diversity as per Shannon Wiener equation¹.

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