Biodiversity

• Classification: The way in which organisms are grouped into categories or classes.
• Taxonomy: The science of naming and classifying organisms, especially plants and animals.
• Linnaean Hierarchy: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
• The Linnaean system of binomial nomenclature assigns two names (genus and specific) to every species.
• Biome: A biome is a specific geographic area notable for the species living there which reflects the climate & other conditions
• Ecosystem: An ecosystem consists of all the living things that interact with one another within an environment
• Habitat: The place where an organism lives and the conditions in which it lives.
• Holdridge classification system: The Holdridge life zone system is a global system predominantly based on climate.
• Specht's Classification System: Specht’s classification of Australian vegetation uses the foliage cover by the tallest plants in an area and the height of those plants.
• Ecological Sampling: Sampling that is done in the natural environment.
• Random Sampling: A sampling technique that involves selecting a sample from a population by using a random method.
• Stratified random sampling: A sampling technique that involves dividing a population into subgroups and then selecting a sample from each subgroup.
• Systematic sampling: A sampling technique that involves selecting every few items or individual from a larger group.