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While these models differ in the exact method of diversity estimation, they all include two important components: species richness and species evenness. Species richness is a measure of the number of different types of species in an ecosystem.
The main difference between species richness and species evenness is that species richness is the total number of species in an ecological community whereas species evenness is how evenly distributed the species are in the ecosystem.
Area 1 and Area 2 have the same species richness but different species evenness. As it has a higher species evenness, the overall species diversity of Area 1 is higher than that of Area 2, as species diversity takes both richness and evenness into account.
Traditional attempts to define biodiversity consider two components: richness—the number of species in the ecosystem—and evenness—the extent to which species are evenly distributed. This chapter studies attempts to make both concepts precise using mathematical approaches.
A diversity index is a quantitative measure that reflects how many different types (such as species) there are in a dataset (a community). These indices are statistical representations of biodiversity in different aspects (richness, evenness, and dominance).
Three metrics of species diversity – species richness, the Shannon index and the Simpson index – are still widely used in ecology, despite decades of valid critiques leveled against them.
The relationship between species richness and evenness (RRE) across communities remains, however, a controversial issue in ecology because no consistent pattern has been reported. We conducted a systematic meta-review of RRE in aquatic ecosystems along regional to continental gradients and across trophic groups, differing in body size by 13 ...
Species richness and species diversity. Why more diverse ecosystems may be more stable. Roles of foundation and keystone species.
Species richness, the count, or total number, of unique species within a given biological community, ecosystem, biome, or other defined area. While species richness does not consider the population sizes of individual species in the area (see species abundance) or how even the distribution of each.
Comparisons can be made among communities using attributes such as species richness, species diversity, and evenness. Species richness is simply the number of species in a community.