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M4: Community Ecology - Species Abundance and Diversity Flashcards

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1
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What consumes live plant material?

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Herbivore

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2
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What consume other organism?

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Predators

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3
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What live off hosts, but do not kill them?

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Parasite

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4
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What live off parasite?

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Hyperparasite

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5
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What larvae live off and kill their host?

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Parasitoid

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6
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What induce disease?

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Pathogen

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What is the association of interacting species in an area?

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Community

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What is the community structure?

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No. of species (diversity), abundance, and biomass

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9
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What are species abundance?

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Normally distributed.
Most are moderately abundant. Few are extremely abundant and extremely rare.

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10
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Who proposed that “abundance of species are minimal (basic) community structure”?

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G.F. Clause

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11
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What is bell-shaped distribution?

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Lognormal Distribution

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12
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In species rarefaction curves, what does increasing trend means?

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Still recording more species

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13
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What is “relative abundance + no. of species”?

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Species diversity

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14
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What is the probability that two individuals randomly selected from sample belongs to same species?

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Simpson’s index (D)

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What is the formula of Simpson’s index?

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D = EPi^2
Pi - proportion of ith species in samples

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Simpson’s index (D) can be 0 to 1. What does it imply?

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0 means higher richness and evenness. 1 mens 1 species is present.

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17
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What is the probability that two individuals randomly selected from sample belongs to different species?

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Simpson’s Index of Diversity

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18
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What is the formula for Simpson’s Index of Diversity?

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Simpson’s Index of Diversity = 1 - D

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19
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What is when only one species is present, value is 1, as well as the max value is the number of species in community (s)?

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Simpson’s Reciprocal Index

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20
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What is the formula for Simpson’s reciprocal index?

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Simpson’s Reciprocal Index = 1/D

21
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What is all species in community are equally abundant? (0 to 1)

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Measure of evenness (ED)

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What is the formula for measure of evenness(ED)?

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ED = (1/D)/S

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What is the formula for Shannon-Wiener index (H’)?

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Pi - Proportion of ith species in sample
logePi - natural logarithm of Pi
s = number of species in community
s
H’ = - EPilogePic
i = 1

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What is 0 to 1 in Shannon-Wiener Index?

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0 with only 1 species

25
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What is the increases in Shannon-Wiener Index?

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  • Increases with higher sp. richness
  • Increases with higher sp. evenness
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What is 0 to 1 in Evenness index using H’?

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1 means all species in community are equally abundant

27
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In the Shannon-Wiener index curve, what does high slope and low slope implies?

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High slope = Less Evenness
Low Slope = High Evenness

28
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What promote higher diversity?

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Intermediate level of disturbance

29
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When does equilibrium occur?

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When environmental conditions are more/less stable

30
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What is disturbance according to W. Sousa?

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Creates an opportunity for new individuals to become established

31
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What is disturbance according to P.S. White & S. Pickett?

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Disrupts the ecosystem, community or population structure and changes resources, substrate availability, or the physical environment

32
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What is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis?

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According to J. Connell, high diversity is a consequence of continually changing conditions

33
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What happens with high and low level disturbance?

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Reduced diversity

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What happens with intense and frequent disturbance?

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Less species can colonize and complete life cycle

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What happens with infrequent and less intense disturbance?

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  • Most effective competitor
  • Efficient resource use
  • Efficient interference competition
36
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What happens when more species colonize?

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No time for competitive exclusion.

37
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What are Simpson and Shannon-Wiener indices sensitive to?

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Number of species and abundance

38
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Where is Simpson’s index sensitive to?

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Dominant Species

39
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Where is Shannon-Wiener Index sensitive to?

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Rare Species

40
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What do the indices exhibits with species richness?

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Non-linear relationship

41
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What does communities at high species richness implies?

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More similar indices

42
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What is the mathematically unified family of diversity indices?

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Hill’s number

43
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Where is hill’s number sensitive to?

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Rare to common species with increasing q (0 to 4)

44
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What is the shortcomings of species richness?

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Cannot detect rare/common species and do not incorporate abundance

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What is the shortcomings of diversity indices?

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Not intuitive and cannot be compared directly with sp. richness

46
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What is the shortcomings of Hill’s Numbers?

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Sensitive sampling effort and unequal replicates must be rarefied

47
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What is the number of species?

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Species richness

48
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What is the number of species per area?

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Species diversity

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