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Explain the relationship between species richness, relative abundance, and diversity.

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Species diversity is not only measured by the number of species present within a biological community but when measuring the species diversity two factors which are considered known as species richness, and relative abundance.

Species richness is defined as the number of species in a particular area, and species abundance defined as the number of individual per species. Maybe two communities equally rich in species, but they are different in relative abundance.

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