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Community function of benthos

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Community function of benthos

Key Value
EV EBV
Realm Marine
EBV class Community composition
EBV name Community function of benthos
Step in identification process Internal review process
Definition Genetic richness (number of alleles in a population) and genetic evenness (expected proportion of heterozygotes in a population at equilibrium) of taxa.
Metric * Allelic richnessNucleotide diversity (π) * He = expected heterozygosity under Hardy–Weinberg assumptions * HO = observed heterozygosity (probability of randomly drawing two different alleles from the population)
Spatial resolution unit Sample sites (populations) across the geographic range of selected taxa
Temporal resolution unit 10 years
Taxonomic/ ecosystem focus group Selected species or other taxonomic groups which are categorized as threatened by the IUCN Red List.
Which EESVs can be deduced from this EBV? Recreation-related services, Biomass provisioning services
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