If your cat or dog has diarrhea accompanied by fever, vomiting, blood in the stool, or lethargy, consult your veterinarian immediately, as these are serious symptoms. In these cases, hospitalization, antibiotics, and IV fluids might be necessary to treat your pet.
Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place or on the entire Earth, including its ecosystems, species, populations, and genes. Conservation thus seeks to protect lifeâs variety at all levels of biological organization.
Lesson Summary. In this lesson you learned that species diversity is defined as the number of species and abundance of each species that live in a particular location. The number of species that live in a particular location is called species richness. Abundance is defined as the number of individuals of each species.he number of species that live in a certain location is called species richness. If you were to measure the species richness of a forest, you might find 20 bird species, 50 plant species, and 10 mammal species.