Other Measures of Diversity
Alternatively, other types of diversity may be assessed for organisms:
- taxonomic diversity
- ecological diversity
- morphological diversity
- Degeneracy
There are broad correlations between different types of diversity. For example, there is a close link between vertebrate taxonomic and ecological diversity.
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