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What is the term for the number of taxa in a community, and what

kind of diversity is this called?

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Species diversity is the term for the number of taxa in a community. That is a representation of data set a a given community The kind of diversity is called species richness. ( since it involves just count of species.)

The species richness is one of the three components of species diversity . other two are ;

Phylogentic diversity, emphasized the role of genetic between different species in a community

Species evenness, which gives a quantitative representation of how abundant the species are in the community

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Species richness is the number of species that conform a community or a landscape in ecosystems.

The kind of diversity that just take into account the number of species in one location is gamma diversity, it the total of

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There are different types of diversity measurements. Alpha diversity is the mean of species in one location. Beta diversity is the comparison between environments and gamma diversity is the total count of species in a landscape.

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