Biodiversity within a Community

• What is biodiversity?


  The number and variety of living organisms in a particular area.
• What is species diversity?


  The number of different species and number of individuals of each species within any one community.
• What is genetic diversity?


  The variety of genes possessed by the individuals that make up a population of a species.
• What is ecosystem diversity?

  The range of different habitats within a particular area or region.
• What creates a high biodiversity?

  If there is a large number of different habitats within an area.
• How can biodiversity be measured?

  Species richness and species diversity.
• What is species richness?

  The number of species within a community.
• What is a community?

  A group of populations of different species living and interacting in the same area.
• What does species diversity look at?


  The number of different species in a community as well as the evens of abundance across the species.
• What gives a greater species diversity?

  The greater the number of species in an ecosystem and the more evenly distributed the number of organisms are.
• What ecosystems are stable and why?

  Ones with high species diversity as they are more resilient to environmental changes.
• What are the reasons for maintaining biodiversity?

  Moral and ethical , ecological, environmental, economical, aesthetic, and agricultural.
• How can species richness be a misleading indicator of diversity?

  As it doesn't take into account the number of each species.