Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
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Regional diversity - Ecologists have often partitioned the overall species diversity of a region into different components.
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The overall richness of the region, called gamma diversity or γ diversity.
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Local site richness, called alpha diversity or α diversity
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Difference is known as beta diversity, or β diversity
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