True or False: Species richness is a measure of the total number of species in an ecosystem, but it does not consider their relative abundance.
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True
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Analysis
True.
Species richness refers to the total number of different species in an ecosystem, but it does not consider the relative abundance (the number of individuals of each species). It simply counts the species present, without taking into account how many individuals of each species exist.
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