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Describe a hypothesis that explains the species area relationship

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Species-area relationships are often graphed for islands (or habitats that are otherwise isolated from one another, such as woodlots in an agricultural landscape) of different sizes. Although larger islands tend to have more species, a smaller island may have more than a larger one.
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