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Science 9 April 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5412, pp. 276 - 277
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5412.276
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Science's Compass: Enhanced Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Heeding the Warning in Biodiversity's Basic Law

Michael L. Rosenzweig

One of the first patterns in ecology to be elucidated was the species-area relationship: Larger areas harbor more species than smaller areas. This relationship was explained by theoretical ecologists in terms of a log-normal distribution of species abundance, but Harte and colleagues provide a more accurate mathematical explanation of the species-area relationship. Michael Rosenzweig discusses this new mathematical interpretation in his Perspective and explains how it can be used to help to conserve species diversity.

The author is editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Ecology Research and is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0088, USA. E-mail: scarab{at}u.arizona.edu

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