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area-heterogeneity trade-off: a standalone construct

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Biogeography

the idea that more habitat types in a fixed area shrink the space for each, so richness can peak at intermediate heterogeneity.

In biogeography, area-heterogeneity trade-off refers to the idea that more habitat types in a fixed area shrink the space for each, so richness can peak at intermediate heterogeneity. This meaning comes from Allouche (2012) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Allouche, O., Kalyuzhny, M., Moreno-Rueda, G., Pizarro, M., & Kadmon, R. (2012). Area–heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(43), 17495-17500. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208652109

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