A new proposed measure for estimating taxonomic diversity

Recently, Deng Entropy has been received attention and began to use in many real application. That entropic measure was improved in the Dempster-Shafer Evidential Theory (DSET) and based on the basic probability assignment. The present study offers a new proposed taxonomic diversity measure based on Deng Entropy. In the study, the data obtained from 8 complexes (sample plots) were used. The values of the complexes were computed and compared with each other. According to the results, the new proposed taxonomic diversity measure seems to be promising in estimation of taxonomic diversity. However, further and more detail studies should be done to better understand the performance of the new proposed measure by using various ecological data and comparing it to the other taxonomic or traditional diversity indices