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How diversification rates and diversity limits combine to create large-scale species-area relationships.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 12 Sept 2011
Kisel Yael, McInnes Lynsey, Toomey Nicola H, Orme C David L
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Species-area relationships (SARs) have mostly been treated from an ecological perspective, focusing on immigration, local extinction and resource-based limits to species coexistence. However, a full understanding across large regions is impossible without also considering speciation and global extinction. Rates of both speciation and extinction are known to be strongly affected by area and thus should contribute...
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