Gamma diversity

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The gamma diversity describes the biodiversity of a landscape, starting from 1,000  ha to approximately 1,000,000 ha. Thus, usually involves the gamma diversity a variety of Alpha diversities that are not necessarily synonymous with their beta Having to distinguish between diversity . Hunter (2002) describes gamma diversity as “the diversity of species on a geographical scale.” Gamma diversity is in turn part of epsilon diversity, which describes the species diversity of several landscapes in a geographical region.

See also

swell

  • Michael D. Jennings: Some Scales for Describing Biodiversity. GAP Analysis Bulletin. No. 5, 1996 ( PDF 1.4 MB, complete edition; archived HTML version ( memento of September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) of the individual article from the Idaho State University server)

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hunter, M. Jnr. (2002). Fundamentals of Conservation Biology. (Second Edition). Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell Science.