Diversity

Question 1

community

Answer 1

Associatation of interacting species inhabiting a difined area

Question 2

guild

Answer 2

Group of organisms that eats similar type of pray/food eg. seed eaters, fruit eaters, filter feeders

Question 3

life forms/ functional groups

Answer 3

Combination of structures and grwoth dynamics that characterize plants into groups eg. trees, vines, grasses

Question 4

Log-normal distriution

Answer 4

Most species are moderatyl abundant, few are abundant or rare

Question 5

species diversity

Answer 5

Includes richness and eveness

Question 6

species richness

Answer 6

The number of species

Question 7

species eveness

Answer 7

The relative abundance

Question 8

rank abundance curves

Answer 8

Plot with relatives abundace of speceis against their rank in abundace

Question 9

Things that affect species diverstiy

Answer 9

1- enviromental complexity
2-nutrient availability
3- disturbance

Question 10

What is disturbance

Answer 10

A discrete event that disrupts ecosystems, community or population strcutre and changes resources, substratre availability or physical envieormnt

Disrupture from avarage conditions