chapter 7 Flashcards
id: made up of the populations of different species that live together in a particular place and interact with one another
community
ToF: the term community is often used in a narrower sense to refer to a subset of the species
true
enum: (4) emergent properties of communities according to Cunningham
(1) species diversity
(2) community structure
(3) resilience
(4) stability
enum: addtl emergent property of communities accdg to smith and smith
species interaction
enum: (2) what makes up species diversity
species richness combined with species evenness
id: number of different species in a community
species richness
id: abundance or number of individuals of the different species
species evenness
A community where the number of individuals of the different species are nearer to each other has a (lower, higher) species evenness than one where there are much more of some species compared to others.
higher
A biologically diverse community, like a tropical rainforest, with a large number of different species generally has (few, many) individuals of each species.
few
id: Quantitative Measure of Species Diversity which Increases with Increase in Number of Species and Species Abundance
The Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index
A tropical rainforest has smaller areas, each having different conditions like temperature, sunlight and available nutrients
what do you call these smaller areas?
(microenvironments)
microenvironments provide several _________ that different species may occupy and enable closely related species to coexist.
niches
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