Science
Species diversity.
Definition
Species diversity measures the variety and abundance of different species within a community or ecosystem. It includes both species richness (the number of different species) and species evenness (how evenly individuals are distributed among those species).
Examples
Real-world.
- 1 A tropical rainforest with thousands of species having high species diversity
- 2 A monoculture cornfield with essentially one species having very low diversity
- 3 Coral reefs being called the 'rainforests of the sea' due to their incredible species diversity