Question

Contrast in detail the following terms: Species evenness and species richness. A)Be sure to define each, B)then explain how they are different and similar, and C)provide a theoretically example of how they are used when describing a community.

Answer 1

Species richness is defined as the total number of species living in a community while species evenness is wat is best defined as the relative abudance compared with one another.

They are used to quantify species diversity because the greater the species richness, and the greater the species evenness, the more diverse it is.

Species richness differs from species evenness because everything has species richness that varies from different animals, but they might have different amounts of each species.

For example, a forest may have a species richness of coyotes and foxes, but a higher species evenness for coyotes and a lower species evenness for the foxes. The relationship between these two things would be the fact that they both have to do with the number of species in an area. One gets more specific than the other but they still have to do with the species in an area or biome.