Community Characteristics
COMMUNITY Individuals of a species together constitute a population is known as community. different places of earth are shared by many coexisting populations such association is called community. DEFINITION The assemblage of population of living organism in a particular area or habitat is termed as community. COMMUNITY ECOLOGY Community ecology is the study of a community in respect to the environment. CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITIES A community has the following characteristics. 1. SPECIES DIVERSITY: in an ecosystem ecology each community is composed of taxonomically different species. Species diversity refers to number of different species in community both abundant and rare species. Species diversity has two components. · Species richness : it refers different types of species and their numerical strength. Technically it refers to ratio betwee...