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Landscape ecology

the gradual loss of species from an isolated area until richness falls to the lower equilibrium its new size supports.

In landscape ecology, faunal relaxation refers to the gradual loss of species from an isolated area until richness falls to the lower equilibrium its new size supports. This meaning comes from Diamond (1972) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Diamond, J. M. (1972). Biogeographic Kinetics: Estimation of Relaxation Times for Avifaunas of Southwest Pacific Islands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 69(11), 3199-3203. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.69.11.3199

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