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Abundance
Organisms & populations
The number of individuals of a species or population within a specified area or other defined unit. Abundance is a quantitative population attribute and does not itself imply that organisms are numerous.
Begon, M., Townsend, C. R., & Harper, J. L. (2006). Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems (4th ed.). Blackwell Publishing. Krebs, C. J. (2009). Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance (6th ed.). Benjamin Cummings.
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