Between geometry and biology: How and why does the number of species depend on area
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
There are few universal rules in ecology, but arguably one is the relationship between the area of a study plot and the number of species counted within that plot, the so called species-area relationship. Larger study plots obviously host on average more species than do smaller plots, and ecologists have long sought a universal description of this relationship.