Heeding the Warning in Biodiversity's Basic Law
- 9 April 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 284 (5412) , 276-277
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5412.276
Abstract
One of the first patterns in ecology to be elucidated was the species-area relationship: Larger areas harbor more species than smaller areas. This relationship was explained by theoretical ecologists in terms of a log-normal distribution of species abundance, but [Harte and colleagues][1] provide a more accurate mathematical explanation of the species-area relationship. Michael Rosenzweig discusses this new mathematical interpretation in his Perspective and explains how it can be used to help to conserve species diversity. [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/284/5412/334This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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