Biodiversity Flashcards

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What is biodiversity?

The variety of different species living in a habitat or ecosystem.

True or false? A community with high biodiversity is usually more stable than one with low biodiversity.

True. Species are less dependent on any one other species, so the community copes better if one species changes in number.

When sampling with quadrats, what is recorded to compare the biodiversity of two habitats?

The number of different species found in each habitat, and how abundant each one is.