8.6 Biodiversity
Notes
Higher biodiversity generally makes ecosystems more resilient to disturbance.
- Producers and keystone species have big effects on structure.
- Genetic, species and ecosystem diversity all matter.
Practice
An ecosystem with high biodiversity is usually:
More backup roles.
Losing a producer species often affects:
Energy base of the food web.
Species richness is:
Count of species.
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