Abundance Flashcards
1
Q
What is abundance important for?
A
Fully describing a community
2
Q
What is an important property of communites?
A
Species-rank abundance distributions
3
Q
What is a good way of assessing community structure?
A
Rank abundance distributions
4
Q
What is the relationship between abundance and range size?
A
Positive
BUT has many scatter points
5
Q
What could cause a negative relationship between abundance and range size?
A
Low abundance
Means individuals are easy to miss
So range size may be underestimated
So there may be an artifical link between abundance and range size
6
Q
How does range position affect range size?
A
Range is small and contains the lowest density populations
7
Q
What factors class a species as rare?
A
Small geographical range size
Small population size
Habitat specialist
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