Intro to Biodiversity

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Genetic diversity

a measure of the genetic variation among individuals in a population

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Population Bottleneck

If a large population declines in number, the amount of genetic diversity carried by the surviving individuals is greatly reduced

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Species diversity

the number of species in a region or in a particular ecosystem

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Habitat Diversity

the variety of habitats that exist in a given ecosystem

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Specialists

only live under a narrow range of biotic and abiotic conditions

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Ecosystem Diversity

the variety of ecosystems that exist in a region

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Species Richness

The number of different species in a given area of an ecosystem

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Generalists

can live under a wide range of biotic and abiotic conditions

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Species Evenness

The relative proportion of individuals within the different species in a given area