Which of the following is not true about Species- Area relationship?
(i) According to Alexander von Humboldt species richness increased with increasing explored area, but only up to a limit.
(ii) The relation between species richness and area for a wide variety of taxa is rectangular.
(iii) Value of Z lies in the range of 0.6 to 1.2, regardless of the taxonomic group or the region.
(iv) Among very large areas like the entire continents, species-area relationships Z values in the range of 0.1 to 0.2.
(v) For frugivorous birds and mammals in the tropical forests of different continents, the slope (Z values) is found to be 1.15.
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(i) According to Alexander von Humboldt species richness increased with increasing explored area, but only up to a limit.
(ii) (v) For frugivorous birds and mammals in the tropical forests of different continents, the slope (Z values) is found to be 1.15.
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