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Ecologists predict that global diversity is threatened by land use change and by the reductions in habitat area and the fragmentation that accompany land use change. What role do studies of diversity on islands and species area relationships on continents (see chapter 22) play in these predictions?
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12 years ago
The generalization that emerges from studies of diversity on islands, and species-area relationships on continents, is that fewer species live in smaller, more isolated areas. Therefore, habitat loss and fragmentation will also have negative effects on biodiversity.
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