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10 years ago
If I have one with 35 families and one with 16..would the species richness just be the number of families?
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10 years ago
Species richness is simply a count of the number of different species in a given area it is not the number of species belonging to an individual animal family.

Species richness is a measure of biodiversity.
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10 years ago
No - not unless each family has the same number of species.  Each family contains different sub-groups which we call genera (plural of genus) and each genus contains one or more species.  It's quite possible to think of a situation where you could have many families represented by only a few species, and vice-versa.
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