Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis
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SYNTHESIS Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis
I challenge (1) the assumption that habitat patches are natural units of measurement for species richness, and (2) the assumption of distinct effects of habitat patch size and isolation on species richness. I propose a simpler view of the relationship between habitat distribution and species richness, the ‘habitat amount hypothesis’, and I suggest ways of testing it. The habitat amount hypothes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biogeography
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0305-0270
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12130