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Within a region species richness and area for a wide variety of taxa shows the graph

Options

  1. ARectangular hyperbola
  2. BStraight line
  3. CSimple hyperbola
  4. DExponential

Correct answer

A. Rectangular hyperbola

Step-by-step solution

It 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. On a logarithmic scale, the relationship is a straight line described by the equation.

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