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Species richness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Species richness is the number of different species in a given area. It is represented in equation form as S . Typically, species richness is used in conservation studies to determine the sensitivi...
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Species diversity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Species diversity is an index that incorporates the number of species in an area and also their relative abundance. It is generally a much more useful value than species richness. The most common ind...
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Species richness.. Dictionary terms for Species richness. in English, English definition for Species richness., Thesaurus and Translations of Species richness. to English. ... No results for "Species richness." were found in English...
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Fortunately, when dealing with large numbers of species, species richness tends to become a reasonable surrogate for gene or character richness (ref 4). Therefore identifying genes or characters as a fundamental currency of biodiversity value provides an additional justification for using species richness.
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Scientists have taken a novel approach to studying biological diversity by making use of laser remote sensing (lidar). ... Habitat heterogeneity and complexity have been shown in many places to be directly related to animal species richness -- a more complex environment provides a greater number of ecological niches to...
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1994. Predicting the species richness of neotropical forest butterflies: ithomiinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) as indicators. Biol. Cons. 71:77-86 Beck, M. W. 1998. Comparison of hte measurement and effects of habitat structure on gastropods in rocky intertidal and mangrove habitats.
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