Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub

Biodiversity includes all the flora and fauna on Earth. All the varieties of organisms come under biodiversity. German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt made the observation regarding the relationship between species richness and the area of the habitat. As per his observation, species richness increased with increasing area of habitat up to a limit. When plotted in a graph with the area on the x-axis and species richness on the y-axis, this relationship forms a rectangular hyperbola with the equation$\mathrm{S}={\mathrm{C}\mathrm{A}}^{\mathrm{Z}}$. On a log scale, the relationship is a straight line having the equation

$\mathrm{L}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{g}\mathrm{S}=\mathrm{L}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{g}\mathrm{C}+\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{L}\mathrm{o}\mathrm{g}\mathrm{A}$.$\mathrm{S}=$species richness, A=area of region, C=Y-intercept and Z= regression co-efficient (Slope).