Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
Clement’s organismic model- Competition causes sharp boundaries between groups of species; certain species group together.
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Gleason’s individualistic model- Competition does not cause sharp boundaries; different species do not group together due to physical variables.
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Principle of species individuality
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Species richness- which is a count of the number of species.
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One major problem is that this approach does not take species frequency of occurrence or relative abundance into account.
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Berger-Parker index- Dominance indices are weighted toward the abundance of the commonest or dominant species
DBP= Nmax/N