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JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
Volume 28, Issue 7, Pages 827-830Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00603.x
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birds; continents; islands; lumbricids; plants; species-area relationship
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Aim To attack a widespread myth. Location World-wide. Methods Simple mathematical logical and empirical examples. Results As both species and area are finite and non-negative, the species-area relationship is limited at both ends. The log species-log area relationship is normally effectively linear on scales from about 1 ha to 10(7) km(2). There are no asymptotes. At the intercontinental scale it may get steeper; at small scales it may in different cases get steeper or shallower or maintain its slope. Main conclusion The species-area relationship does not have an asymptote.
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