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What is biodiversity? Measuring life's variety — Homework
Show your counting or reasoning for every richness/evenness question.
- 1.A sample contains 3 oak trees, 1 maple, and 1 birch. What is the species richness?
- 2.Community P has 60 individuals, 58 of one species and 1 each of two others. Community Q has 60 individuals split 20/20/20 across three species. Both have richness 3. Which is more diverse in practice, and why?
- 3.Classify as genetic, species, or ecosystem biodiversity: a valley containing desert, riverbank, and forest habitats.
- 4.Classify as genetic, species, or ecosystem biodiversity: forty different traditional varieties of rice.
- 5.Report your biodiversity transect: how many distinct plant species did you count along your chosen path, and how did that compare to a second nearby path if you tried one?
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