higher biology - unit 3.7: components of biodiversity

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biodiversity

range of species in an ecosystem

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components of biodiversity

genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity

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genetic diversity

number and frequency of all the alleles in a population

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species diversity

species richness and relative abundance

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species richness

the number of different species in a community

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relative abundance

the proportion of each species in the ecosystem

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a community with a dominant species has a...

lower species diversity than one with the same species richness but no particularly dominant species

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ecosystem diversity

number of distinct ecosystems within a defined area