Question

Define the term species richness.

Answer 1

Species richness is a measure of the number of species found in a sample. ... This particular measure of species richness is known as D, the Menhinick's index. D = s √N where s equals the number of different species represented in your sample, and N equals the total number of individual organisms in your sample.

If you have more number of species , more will be species richness hence stable will be the ecosystem. More species richnesswill contribute to increase in biodiversity also which is an important aspect biodiversity conservation.


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Answer 2

Species richness is described below :

Species richness is a unit that indicates about the number of species that are found in a particular area.

If the species richness is high, the ecosystem will be more stable.

For high richness of species the area should have large or high number of species in that particular area.

Development in richness of species helps in increasing the stability of our biodiversity.