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New method reveals hidden diversity in ecosystems, revolutionizing ecological analysis.

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Shannon's entropy is a way to measure diversity in nature by looking at both the number of different species and how evenly they are distributed. The value of this measurement can be the same for many different combinations of species numbers and distributions.