Diversity is related to environmental complexity

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Regulation of Community Diversity

1. Explain the rationale for thinking that diversity is related to resource availability.

2. Explain the rationale for thinking that diversity is related to environmental complexity.

3. Describe the actual relationships we see between resource availability and diversity in nature, and why diversity peaks at intermediate availability and decreases at both high and low availability.

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