Island Biogeography : Evaluating Correlational Data and 9 Testing Alternative Hypotheses
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Island biogeography, the effects of taxonomic effort and the importance of island niche diversity to single-island endemic species.
Island biogeography theory is fundamentally reliant on measuring the number of species per island and hence has taxonomy at its foundation. Yet as a metric used in tests of the theory, island species richness (S) has varied with time according to the level of taxonomic effort (a function of the rate of finding and describing species). Studies using a derivative of S, single-island endemic speci...
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