Across
- 3. variety of ecosystems
- 6. number of ecological niches
- 7. disappearance of a species from Earth; local extinction is the disappearance of a species from a region
- 10. concept originated by Norman Myers to describe a geographical region with a large number of endemic species and a large percentage of degraded habitat
Down
- 1. variety of metabolic compounds in an ecosystem
- 2. species that has been introduced to an ecosystem in which it did not evolve
- 3. number of species becoming extinct over time, sometimes defined as extinctions per million species–years to make numbers manageable
- 4. species native to one place
- 5. molecular genetic method for identifying a unique genetic sequence to associate with a species
- 8. variety of a biological system, typically conceived as the number of species, but also applying to genes, biochemistry, and ecosystems
- 9. large animals