| RICHNESS | Number of species within a biological community; or, the vividness of a colour (8) |
| GREATTIT | Green, yellow and black garden bird whose call is often considered a harbinger of spring and is the largest of the six species within its family (5,3) |
| MALIBU | Los Angeles coastal community or the longboard named after it |
| FORMOSA | Ontario community or the former Taiwan |
| BRILLIANCY | Fish I like lacking female's vividness of colour |
| BRILLIANCE | Vividness of exceptional talent |
| ACADEMIA | The life, community or world of teachers, schools and education (8) |
| BANISHED | Told to leave a community or group (8) |
| ECOSYSTEM | Word for a biological community of flora/fauna and the physical environment in which they collectively interact, such as a coral reef, rainforest, river or woodland (9) |
| GENOMICS | Study of a biological part that's "sequenced" |
| VALENCIA | Spanish autonomous community or its capital |
| CIVITATE | Community or its citizens: n. fem. abl. sing. |
| LAC | Scarlet resinous secretion of a number of species of insects of the superfamily Coccoidea |
| GALAPAGOS | During his voyage on the Beagle, Charles Darwin studied the vast number of species on this archipela |
| FACEBOOKENDS | Headline that would shock the Internet community (or put another way, hint to the divided word in each of the answers to starred clues) |
| DIET | From the Greek for "a way of life", the food habitually consumed by an animal, community or person (4) |
| PARISH | A town or village having its own church and pastor/priest; its people or community; or, a district for administration purposes (6) |
| ONE | Number of species known to cry tears of emotion |
| ANIMALS | Studied in zoology and ethology, the approximately 8.7 million species of living organisms in a biological kingdom that includes mammals, amphibians and insects (7) |
| AMNIOTE | Member of a biological clade including birds, reptiles and mammals, named after a membrane surrounding the foetus |
