A Survey of a Pond Community Identified 57 Different Species

question 189

Multiple Choice

A survey of a pond community identified 57 different species that made up the community.This number can best be described as a measure of the community's

• A) Shannon index.
• B) community structure.
• C) species evenness.
• D) species richness.
• E) species diversity.

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Definitions:

Biological Category

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