Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub
In mollusks of New York state, which of these expressions gives you a value betweento?
(S = log of species richness,of Area,of Y-intercept in the species richness area curve)
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Solution:
The relation between species richness and area for a wide variety of taxa (angiosperm plants, birds, bats, freshwater fishes) turns out to be a rectangular hyperbola with the equation S=CAZon a logarithmic scale, S=Species richness. A=Area. C=Y-intercept. Z=Slope of the line (regression coefficient).
The relationship is a straight line described by the equation log of Species richnessof Y-interceptlog of Area.
Thus Z can be expressed as (log of Species richnessof Y-intercept) / log of Area. Z is the regression coefficient. Ecologists have discovered that the value of Z lies in the range ofto, whether it is the plants in Britain, birds in California, or mollusks in New York state.
