Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Arctic Community
▪ Species Richness!
▪ Species Diversity!
For example:
▪ If we found 30 species in one community, and 300
species in another, the second community would have
much higher species richness than the first.
Example:
▪ A forest community with 20 different kinds of trees would have greater
species diversity than a forest community with only 55 kinds of trees
(assuming that the tree species were even in abundance in both cases).
▪ A forest community with 20 different kinds of trees in even abundances
would have greater species diversity than a forest community with the
same number of species in very uneven abundances (for instance, with
90\%90% of the trees belonging to a single species).
❖Foundation species
❖Keystone species
They feed mostly on flying lemurs (also called kagwang), snakes, palm civets, flying
squirrels, giant cloud rats and occasional monkeys.
▪ Biological evolution by
natural selection explains
how life changes over time.
Father of evolution
Charles Darwin:
Galapagos Islands
Jamalia M. Macatanong, CAS, IMCC 9/15/2019 54
Where do Species Come From?
▪ Genes mutate,
▪ individuals are selected
▪ populations evolve that
are better adapted to
survive and reproduce
under existing
environmental
conditions