Species evenness
What Species evenness means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
The relative abundance of the different species; a community is even when species have similar numbers of individuals.
How similar the abundances of the species are.
Topics that use Species evenness
- Biodiversity (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Aesthetic reasons for maintaining biodiversity
- Climate change
- Distinguishing reasons from conservation methods
- Ecological reasons for maintaining biodiversity
- Economic reasons for maintaining biodiversity
- Estimating species richness and abundance
- Ex situ conservation methods
- genetic diversity
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