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Would a smaller or larger island have more “specialists” species? why

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Large areas support more species than small areas, although the relationship is rarely linear. For oceanic archipelagoes, species number roughly doubles for every tenfold increase in island area (Darlington 1957). The species-area relationship is most obvious when the "sites" are true islands (Figure 8.1).

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