The Major Difference Between Richness and Equitability Is That

question 67

Multiple Choice

The major difference between richness and equitability is that

• A)richness is a measure of biodiversity and equitability is a measure of competition.
• B)richness expresses how complicated the organisms that make up an ecosystem are,while equitability only considers the number of organisms.
• C)richness is a count of the number of species present in an ecosystem and equitability describes how evenly distributed the populations of each species are.
• D)richness describes the number of r-selected species in an ecosystem and equitability expresses the number of K-selected species in an ecosystem.

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