Communities and Biodiversity

Dennis Nyberg

Index of Slides : Text Mostly Version

  1. Community Structure
  2. READING ASSIGNMENT
  3. Distribution of abundances
  4. Will communities become different, if species composition changes?
  5. Gleason
  6. If each species has a preferred range of abiotic variables, then we expect to find similar sets of species in places that have a similar abiotic environment. After the analogy of a ‘community’ being as integrated as an individual was rejected, the words ‘species assemblage’ has come into vogue.
  7. Species Specialists
  8. Relationships with humans
  9. Events impact communities
  10. Agricultural impacts
  11. Succession
  12. Succession at the Dunes
  13. Measuring BIODIVERSITY
  14. Quantitative Diversity
  15. Species Lists
  16. Abundance and Biodiversity
  17. Quadrats
  18. Species Diversity quantitatively measures Biodiversity
  19. Simpson’s Diversity Index, D
  20. Shannon-Weaver Index, H
  21. DATA for communities T, Y & Z
  22. Community T calculations
  23. Community Diversity Comparisons
  24. Problem
  25. Vocabulary

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