Chapter 55, Problem 16TYPSS

Summary Introduction

To review:

The hypothesis that species richness in a geographical area can increase the community’s productivity of that area.

Introduction:

Species richness is an increase in the number of species in a given geographical area. The measure of species richness and how the species are distributed within a community is called species diversity. Species richness enhances the community’s production directly, that is, more the species richness, more will be the community’s productivity of that geographical area.