Biodiversity and investigating diversity

Question 1

What is the defintion of biodiversity?

Answer 1

The general term used to describe variety

Question 2

What are the 2 types of measures of biodiversity?

Answer 2

1-species richness
2-index of diversity

Question 3

What is species richness?

Answer 3

The measure of the number of different species in a community

Question 4

What is index of diversity?

Answer 4

The number of different species and the number of individuals of each species within an area.