The document discusses biodiversity and species diversity. It defines biodiversity as the variety of living things in a given area, including plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms. A species is the basic unit of biodiversity. Species diversity refers to the number and abundance of different species in a community. It is measured by species richness, which is simply the number of species, and species evenness, which measures how evenly abundant each species is. A community with many unique species and even abundance across species has higher diversity.