You have been researching the biodiversity of different species of lizards in the Florida Everglades. You select a one square acre plot of land and begin tagging and counting the different reptiles found in that area over 6 months. After 6 months of research, you collected the following data: Species Count Green Anole 16 Brown Anole 72 American Alligator 3 Burmese python 2 Corn Snake 9 Eastern Glass Lizard 8   Use the blanks below to answer the following questions: 1. What is the biodiversity index of the one acre lot observed? 2. If you collected the same information for a second square acre 10 miles away and determined that acre to have a biodiversity index of 0.37, would you consider the first area to be biologically diverse and why or why not? 3. What do you think is suppressing biodiversity in the first acre counted? a b c

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You have been researching the biodiversity of different species of lizards in the Florida Everglades. You select a one square acre plot of land and begin tagging and counting the different reptiles found in that area over 6 months. After 6 months of research, you collected the following data:

Species Count
Green Anole 16
Brown Anole 72
American Alligator 3
Burmese python 2
Corn Snake 9
Eastern Glass Lizard 8

 

Use the blanks below to answer the following questions:

1. What is the biodiversity index of the one acre lot observed?

2. If you collected the same information for a second square acre 10 miles away and determined that acre to have a biodiversity index of 0.37, would you consider the first area to be biologically diverse and why or why not?

3. What do you think is suppressing biodiversity in the first acre counted?

a

b

c

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