Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub

While exploring South American jungles, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt found that within a region, richness of species increases with an increase in the explored area, but only to a limit. When a graph with species richness on Y-axis and area on X-axis is plotted, it resembles a rectangular hyperbola, with the equation S = CA^z, where 'S' is species richness, 'A' is an area, 'C' is Y-intercept and 'z' is the regression co-efficient.