If You Wanted to Provide the Most Data for an Audience

question 14

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to provide the most data for an audience about the species composition of a community and how it changes over time,which of the following would you use and why?

• A) Use species richness because it shows the audience one how many species are present in a community.
• B) Use a diversity index because it shows the audience the species present and how common or rare those species are in that community.
• C) Use niche breadth because it shows the audience how many niches are in use in a community and the number of species using them.
• D) Use a rank-abundance diagram because it shows the audience about relative abundances, changes to relative abundances, number of species, and how the number of species changes over time.

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