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| 11978272772 | Species Richness | The species richness is based solely on the number of species found in the given area and does not reflect the relative dominance of species. formula: R = s | 0 | |
| 11978286576 | Shannon-Wiener Index (H) | This index is determined by both the number of species and the even distribution of individuals among those species (relative dominance). It indicates the degree of uncertainty of predicting the species of a given individual picked at random from the community. In other words, if the diversity is high, you have a poor chance of correctly predicting the species of the next individual picked at random. | 1 | |
| 11978292389 | Shannon-Wiener Index Formula | Pi (relative abundance) = ni/N ni = number of individuals in species i N = total number of individuals in all species. H (the uncertainty of predicting the species) will range from 0 for a community with a single species, to over 7 for a very diverse community. |  | 2 |
| 11978317261 | Species Evenness (E) | Using species richness (R) and the Shannon-Wiener index (H), you can also compute a measure of evenness. The formula is: E = H/ln(R) Evenness (E) is a measure of how similar the abundance of different species are. | 3 | |
| 11978325751 | Genetic Diversity | The range of genetic material present in a gene pool or population of a species. | 4 | |
| 11978335148 | Species Diversity | The number and relative abundance of species in a biological community. | 5 | |
| 11978339931 | Ecological Diversity | The variety of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems found in an area or on the earth | 6 | |
| 11978876683 | Species are defined by: | Carlous Linnaeus Phylogenetic Species Concept (PSC) Evolutionary Species Concept (ESC) Molecular Taxonomy Genome | 7 | |
| 11978883336 | Carlous Linnaeus | 18th century taxonomist who came up with our modern system of naming organisms. | 8 | |
| 11978890224 | Phylogenetic Species Concept (PSC) | the idea that members of a species all share a common ancestry and a common fate | 9 | |
| 11978896657 | Evolutionary Species Concept (ESC) | Defines species in evolutionary and historic terms rather than reproductive potential. Advantage is recognization of "evolutionarily significant" populations. | 10 | |
| 11978900824 | Molecular Taxonomy | uses similarities and differences in gene sequences to classify organisms | 11 | |
| 11978900825 | Genome | All the genetic information in an organism; all of an organism's chromosomes. | 12 | |
| 11978923834 | How many species are presently know? | 1.7 Million species | 13 | |
| 11979082062 | How many species are presently know? | 1.7 Million species | 14 | |
| 11979089561 | Brazil's Atlantic Forest | containing roughly 20,000 plant species, 1,350 vertebrates and millions of insects, about half of which occur nowhere else. | 15 | |
| 11979094964 | Colombia | is characterized by high biodiversity, with the highest rate of species by area unit worldwide and it has the largest number of endemics (species that are not found naturally anywhere else) of any country. | 16 | |
| 11979136448 | Domain: Bacteria (eubacteria) | KINGDOM: eubacteria CELL TYPE: Prokaryote CELL STRUCTURES: Cell walls with peptidoglycan NUMBER OF CELLS: Unicellular MODE OF NUTRITION: autotroph/heterotroph | 17 | |
| 11979182385 | Domain: Archaea (archaebacteria) | KINGDOM: archaebacteria CELL TYPE: Prokaryote CELL STRUCTURES: Cell walls without peptidoglycan NUMBER OF CELLS: Unicellular MODE OF NUTRITION: autotroph/heterotroph | 18 | |
| 11979213901 | Domain: Archaea (protista) | KINGDOM: protista CELL TYPE: Eukaryote CELL STRUCTURES: Cell walls of cellulose in some; some have chloroplasts NUMBER OF CELLS: Most unicellular; some colonial; some multicellular MODE OF NUTRITION: autotroph/heterotroph | 19 | |
| 11979236747 | Domain: Eukarya (fungi) | KINGDOM: fungi CELL TYPE: Eukaryote CELL STRUCTURES: Cell walls of chitin NUMBER OF CELLS: Most multicellular; some unicellular MODE OF NUTRITION: Heterotroph | 20 | |
| 11979266244 | Domain: Eukarya (plantae) | KINGDOM: plantae CELL TYPE: Eukaryote CELL STRUCTURES: Cell walls of cellulose; chloroplasts NUMBER OF CELLS: multicellular MODE OF NUTRITION: Autotroph | 21 | |
| 11979283643 | Domain: Eukarya (animalia) | KINGDOM: animalia CELL TYPE: Eukaryote CELL STRUCTURES: No cell walls or chloroplasts NUMBER OF CELLS: multicellular MODE OF NUTRITION: Heterotroph | 22 | |
| 12050790906 | ecosystem services | the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced | 23 | |
| 12050806930 | habitat corridor | a strip of favorable habitat located between two large patches of habitat that facilitates dispersal | 24 | |
| 12050810697 | core habitat | Areas deep in the interior of a habitat area and that core habitat has better conditions for specialized species than do edges | 25 |
