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    Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. Species richness is simply a count of...
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    Species richness, or biodiversity, increases from the poles to the tropics for a wide variety of terrestrial and marine organisms, often referred to as...
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  • Meanings of species diversity may include species richness, taxonomic or phylogenetic diversity, and/or species evenness. Species richness is a simple...
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    is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows the calculation of species richness for a given number of individual...
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    types of data available for download: Species richness map (amphibians) Species richness map (birds) Species richness map (mammals) Geographic range limit...
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  • contains. For example, species richness (usually noted S) is simply the number of species, e.g. at a particular site. Richness is a simple measure, so...
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  • estimating abundance. Species evenness is combined with species richness, (the number of species in the community), in order to determine species diversity, which...
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    Flecker, A. S. (2002). "An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale". Oecologia. 132 (1): 96–101. Bibcode:2002Oecol...
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  • Relative species abundance and species richness describe key elements of biodiversity. Relative species abundance refers to how common or rare a species is...
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  • the species richness and diversification of isolated natural communities. The theory was originally developed to explain the pattern of the species–area...
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