Species diversity is the number of different species that are represented in a given community (a dataset). The effective number of species refers to...

A diversity index is a method of measuring how many different types (e.g. species) there are in a dataset (e.g. a community). Some more sophisticated...

Look up diversity, diverse, or diversify in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to: Diversity (business), the...

diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity...

Cardillo et al. 2005). The question "What determines patterns of species diversity?" was among the 25 key research themes for the future identified in...

In ecology, beta diversity (β-diversity or true beta diversity) is the ratio between regional and local species diversity. The term was introduced by R...

Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species. It ranges widely, from the number of species to differences...

beta diversity (β-diversity) and gamma diversity (γ-diversity). Whittaker's idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape (gamma diversity) is...

extremely similar species may cause local and global species diversity to be underestimated. The recognition of similar-but-distinct species is important for...

Complexity and Species Diversity, Paine had described such a system in Makah Bay in Washington. In his 1969 paper, Paine proposed the keystone species concept...

synonymous with species diversity, but the formal metric species diversity takes into account both species richness and species evenness. Species richness has...

with the terms alpha diversity (α-diversity) and beta diversity (β-diversity). Whittaker's idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape (γ)...

both species and genetic diversity. Diversity in the ecosystem is significant to human existence for a variety of reasons. Ecosystem diversity boosts...

hosting species that would not thrive outside the boundary habitat. In 1958, Charles S. Elton claimed that ecosystems with higher species diversity were...

abundance. Species evenness is combined with species richness, (the number of species in the community), in order to determine species diversity, which is...

each species in a given area. Species richness is the number of species present in a given area. Species diversity is the relationship between species evenness...

Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture. It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes...

two components of crop diversity; genetic diversity within each crop and the number of species commonly grown. Crop diversity loss threatens global food...

interacting biotic and abiotic factors that affect community structure, species diversity, and population dynamics (shifts in a population over time). There...

introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a...

mycorrhizal fungi. The great diversity in unrelated plant families with myco-heterotrophic members, as well as the diversity of fungi targeted by myco-heterotrophs...

eukaryotic diversity, accounting for a vast majority of environmental DNA sequences or operational taxonomic units (OTUs). However, their species diversity is...

G.; Hanage, W. P. (2009). "The bacterial species challenge: making sense of genetic and ecological diversity". Science. 323 (5915): 741–746. Bibcode:2009Sci...

the correlation between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning is that productivity increases as species diversity increases. One reasoning for this...

A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example...

Hugh J. (2004). "A neutral terminology to define 'invasive' species" (PDF). Diversity and Distributions. 10 (2): 135–41. Bibcode:2004DivDi..10..135C...

role of flagship species in interactions between people and the Sea MAST, 3(2) and 4(1),5–38 Mittermeier, R. 1988. Primate diversity and the tropical...

is a genus of more than 70 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably...

availability causes a diversity in the organisms that survive in these areas. These differences in abiotic components alter the species present by creating...

consequences of species diversity when evaluating community ecology. Community ecology also takes into account abiotic factors that influence species distributions...