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Protected areas and insect conservation
Fattorini, Simone; Dapporto, Leonardo; Borges, Paulo A. V.
What can the parameters of the species–area relationship (SAR) tell us? Insight...
Fattorini, Simone; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Dapporto, Leonardo; Strona, GiovanniAIM: The species–area relationship (SAR) is often modelled by the linearized power function log S = log c + z log A, where S is species richness, A is area, logc is the intercept and z is the slope. Although investigating how c and z values vary across taxa and archipelagos can provide insights into the biology of the SAR, this approach has many caveats. In this study, we aim to clarify how and why SARs should ...
Calling for a new strategy to measure environmental (habitat) diversity in Isla...
Fattorini, Simone; Dapporto, Leonardo; Strona, Giovanni; Borges, Paulo A. V.Many recent researches in island biogeography attempted to disentangle the effects of area per se and "habitat diversity" on species richness. However, the expression "habitat diversity" in this context should be avoided, because habitats can be only recognized by referring to the resources needed by a particular species. What is really measured in such researches is some form of “environmental heterogeneity”. ...