NEETBotanyBiodiversity and its Conservation
What is the range of Z values according to the species:area relationship analysis?
Options
- A0.1 to 0.2
- B0.6 to 1.2
- C1.15
- D0.0 to 1.0
Correct answer
A. 0.1 to 0.2
Step-by-step solution
: During his pioneering and extensive explorations in the wilderness of South American jungles, the great German naturalist and geographer Alexander von Humboldt observed that within a region species richness increased with increasing explored area, but only up to a limit. In fact, the relation between species richness and area for a wide variety of taxa (angiosperm plants, birds, bats, freshwater fishes) turns out to be a rectangular hyperbola (Figure13.2). On a logarithmic scale, the relationship is a straight li