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The relationship between the species richness and the area for a wide variety of taxa appears as
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The relationship between species richness and area (as observed by Alexander von Humboldt) is a rectangular hyperbola on a normal scale.
As area increases, species richness increases rapidly at first, then slows down.
On a log scale, this relationship becomes a straight line.
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