CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Species richness is simply the number of species in a community. Species diversity is more complex, and includes a measure of the number of species in a community, and a measure of the abundance of each species. Species diversity is usually described by an index, such as Shannon’s Index H’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biodiversity, n. The variability among living organisms on the earth, including the variability within and between species and within and between ecosystems.

Detailed explanation-3: -Species abundance is the number of individuals per species, and relative abundance refers to the evenness of distribution of individuals among species in a community. Two communities may be equally rich in species but differ in relative abundance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abundance is defined as “the measure of the number or frequency of individuals of the same species, ” whereas diversity demonstrates the “number of species present (species richness) and their abundance (species evenness) in an area or in a community” (Booth et al., 2003).

Detailed explanation-5: -What is Species Diversity? “Species diversity is defined as the number of different species present in an ecosystem and relative abundance of each of those species.” Diversity is greatest when all the species present are equally abundant in the area.