data test Flashcards
5 symbiotic relationships
mutualism cooperation commensalism parasitism ammensalism
Mutualism
+/+ obligatory relationship
Cooperation
+/+ presence is not essential
commensalism
(+/0) one benefits where the other is not harmed
parasitism
(+/-) parasite benefits, host suffers
ammensalism
(0/-) one inhibits the other
relative species abundance
how common/uncommon or even/uneven a species is relative to its surrounding e.g., gumtrees = abundant
species richness
number of different species in an ecosystem
percentage frequency
how often species occurs when a sample of the environment is taken %frequency= number of quadrats species is found/total number of quadrats
percentage cover
estimate of what percentage of an enclosed area quadrat is occupied by each species
Simpsons diversity index
1- Σn(n-1)/N(N-1)